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"I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can. But I still believe in peace, love and understanding."
"Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care."
"I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals."
"Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!"
"Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always talk about reform and changes. Among the old traditions, there are many aspects that are either ill-suited to our present reality or are counterproductive due to their shortsightedness. These, we have consigned to the dustbin of history. War too should be relegated to the dustbin of history."
"If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
"The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us."
"Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied."
"The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds."
"This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery."
"It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together."
"To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage."
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
"Peace without justice is an impossibility."
"Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity."
"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war."
"Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree."
"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
"There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth."
