“To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.” WorldLoveTryingMeanHumanityPeaceReligiousUniversalBrotherhoodBahaBaha I Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.” IfsMenPeaceReligiousAnimalDealsCompassionCreaturesAbuseFellowsPityCrueltyThought ProvokingVegetarianAnimal RightsShelterFellow ManHumaneVegetarianismWildlifeFurAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal LoveLove And CompassionAnimal WorldHumans And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal CompassionDog RescueAnimal EthicsAnimal AbuseCruel WorldAnimal TestingWildlife ConservationInspirational AnimalAnimals In NatureKindness To AnimalsAnimal RescueNature And AnimalsHuman CrueltyFranciscansHumane SocietyWildlife AnimalsCompassion Towards AnimalsAnimal ConservationFlora And FaunaAnimals And SocietySmall CreaturesWildlife And NatureAbused AnimalsAnimal Shelter Author:Francis of Assisi
“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.” FirstsBelieveTwoWarHardAgeNextNationsPeaceInterestReligiousHeardPoliticianBattleNewsFairsStandingIdeologyIslandsCivilizedThis DaySquaresWowMuseDeclarationOld FashionedConferencesFanaticismHostageHard To BelieveNavalNational InterestsNukesCivilized NationsDeclaration Of War Author:William Safire
“Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don't be the man of anyone or any system, don't believe in any religious stories, and don't ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!” MenBelieveChildrenReasonStoriesLightFacesScienceTurnsIndividualPeaceReligiousWalksModernHe ManIndependentSilentDon't BelieveYour FaceCompassionateOppressors Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!” MenPeaceReligiousBrotherGoodnessEthicsFellowsHonourYour Brother Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance.” FacesSpiritualFormPoliticalOrderNationsPeaceProcessUnderstandingReligiousConsciousnessIssuesEndureConversionDimensionsNegotiationRebirthTreatiesMagnitude Author:Thomas Berry
“The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular traditions will find both support and fulfillment in a functional global community.” HumansPoliticalPeaceCommunityReligiousSupportEconomicParticularCapacityTraditionFulfillmentGlobal Community Book:Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community Source: Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community