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For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
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.
You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.
We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.