Partnership
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
- Cesar Chavez
The best cure for anger is delay.
- Seneca, A.D. 63
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.
- The Bible
[From: Thomas.B.Roos@Dartmouth.edu (10/23/01)
The precise references to the plowshares thing in the bible are:-
Isaiah 2:4 Isaiah 2 Isaiah 2:3-5 He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.
Joel 3:10 Joel 3 Joel 3:9-11 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, `I am strong!`
Micah 4:3 Micah 4 Micah 4:2-4 He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.]
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For it isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable / And lightness has a call that's hard to hear / I wrapped my fear around me like a blanket / I sailed my ship of safety til I sank it / I'm crawling on your shore.
- Indigo Girls
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
- Buddha
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It just seems to me that as long as we are both here, it is pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet rather than to divide it.
- Alice Walker
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships &endash; the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
- Franklin Roosevelt.
Each of us has his or her own little private conviction of rightness and almost by definition, the Utopian condition of which we all dream is that in which all people finally see the errors of their ways and agree with us. And underlying practically all our attempts to bring agreement is the assumption that agreement is brought about by changing people's minds &endash; other people's.
- S.I. Hayakawa
We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
- Albert Einstein
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
- Charlotte Brontë
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
- Dorothy Thompson
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
- James Russell Lowell
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
- Havelock Ellis
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
- William Gladstone
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
- Anais Nin
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
That's all nonviolence is -- organized love.
- Joan Baez
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
- Austin O'Malley
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say 'No' to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.
- Louis Lecoin
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
"When history cannot be written with the pen, it must be written with the gun."
- Farabundo Martí, Salvadoran revolutionary leader, executed Jan. 1932
"Who sows dictatorships, reaps revolutions."
- Dr. Ernesto Paz Aguilar, Honduran government official.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
- Winston Churchill
A hungry man is not a free man.
- Adlai Stevenson
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
- Rich Jeni regarding going to war over religion
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H.G. Wells
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its
goal
Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the
soul.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who do your wicked will. You do your worst--and we will do our best.
- Winston Churchill to Adolf Hitler
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
- Paul Rodriguez
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny ... In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges. Mike machte die Arbeit hier: Wissenschaftliche. Endlich gefunden.
- William Ellery Channing
It is all bad ... They are making it a breeding place for future war.
- Edward Mandell House, adviser to President Wilson, upon seeing secret French and British plans for partition of the Middle East after World War I. [May, 1917. Quoted in "A Peace to End All Peace", Fromkin]
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815-98)
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
- General William Westmoreland during the Vietnam War
Nuclear war doesn't prove who's Right, just who's Left
- ABC news 10/13/87
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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. term papers http://astonishingtutors.com/
- U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
A nuclear war could alleviate some of the factors leading to today's ecological disturbances that are due to current high-population concentrations and heavy industrial production.
- Official of the U.S. Office of Civil Defense, quoted in The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schnell, 1982.
The French army is still the strongest all-around fighting machine in Europe.
- Time magazine, June 12, 1939
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
Go forth into the world in peace; be of good courage; hold fast that which is good; render no man evil for evil; strengthen the fainthearted; support the weak; help the afflicted; honor all men.
- The Royal Navy Prayer
The Fall Of A Republic
When the thirteen colonies were still a part of England, Professor Alexander Tyler wrote about the fall of the Athenian republic over two thousand years previous to that time: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.
- Alexander Tyler
It takes at least two to make a peace, but one can make a war.
- Neville Chamberlain
When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among them. Verily, if God pleased, he could take vengeance on them without your assistance, but He commandeth you to fight His battles.
- The Koran, XLVII
Paritur pax bello (Peace is the daughter of war)
- Latin Proverb
Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., "Where do we go from here?", August 1967