"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."
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"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time."
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"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."
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"One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace."
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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence."
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."
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"The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all."
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"Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives."
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"Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing."
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"Peace is always beautiful."
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"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace."
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"The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it"
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"Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives."
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"We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence."
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"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."
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"Justice of right is always to take precedence over might."
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