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If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
- Andre Gide
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
- Leo Tolstoy
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
- Pat Schroeder
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
- John Boyes
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi
I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
- John Boyes
The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
- Frank Kent
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
- Benjamin Franklin
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.
- Buckminster Fuller
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
- Bertrand Russell
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.