"Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education."
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"We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization."
"When one is without ego, one becomes immediately free of all personal judgements, and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind. Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always."
"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."
"Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil."
"Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding."
"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war"
"Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences."
"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it."
""In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.""
"Don't tell me peace has broken out."
"Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?"
"How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business."
"Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom."
"Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest."
"In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will."
"We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods."
"If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other."
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves."