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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
- African Proverb
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.
- Gerard Vanderhaar
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
- Cesar Chavez
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
- Rwandan Proverb
Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.
- Pope John Paul II
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
- Pablo Casals
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.