Source: Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London
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Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945
“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
“The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Source: Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
Source: Jesus and the Disinherited
Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers
Source: Essays, letters, miscellanies
“To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
“It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”
“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”
“Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.”
Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
Source: Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
“It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.”
“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence