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“So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.”

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Book:A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written

Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written

“Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.”

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Author:Kin Hubbard

“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“People always make war when they say they love peace.”

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Book:Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”

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Author:Audre Lorde

“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

“Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.”

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Author:Friedrich Schiller

“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”

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Author:Ambrose Bierce

“The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.”

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Author:Natan Sharansky

“The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'”

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Author:Alice Walker

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”

Source: The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi