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What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
- Isaiah 2:4
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.
- Kenneth Boulding
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
- Jane Addams
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
- Albert Camus
When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
- Marian Anderson
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
- William Ralph Inge
I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.