"Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
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"The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young."
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"All works of love are works of peace."
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"Justice of right is always to take precedence over might."
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"It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it."
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"The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both."
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"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."
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"Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day."
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"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."
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"If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends."
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"You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."
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"To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman."
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"How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?"
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"The God of peace is never glorified by human violence."
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"If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another."
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"Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are."
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"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."
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"Compromise does not mean cowardice."
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"What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope."
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"Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other."
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