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"Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness."
"Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace."
"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
"Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy."
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
"The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations."
"Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others."
"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."
"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."
"In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains."
"People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments."
"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace."
"Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him."
"...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality."
"How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?"
"One must care about a world one will not see."
"Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step."
"It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace."
