“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.” WellsMayStillsTodayLastsChoicesPeaceCommunityChanceMankindChaosViolentAnnihilationCoexistenceLast Chance Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.” WorldIdeasDifferentStrongForceNationsPeaceChanceResponsibilityAcceptingInfluenceArmsSafeWeakStructureBurdenLive ByEndeavor Author:Richard M. Nixon
“It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.” KnowsWarSeemsGamesPeaceChanceVirtueDangerousSeriousExerciseMountainSubstitutesPacifist Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.” MindLittlesUseTruthPeaceChanceLevelsEmotionAttentionHigherOffersGoodnessRemainsAffairFixedPeace Of MindConfinedHigher Level Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth