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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
- Susan B. Anthony
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
- Augustine of Hippo
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
- Karl Kraus
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence...and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.
- Manitonquat
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
- Mark Twain
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- Thomas Merton
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.
- Ammon Hennacy
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
- J. K. Galbraith
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.