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Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.
Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies
There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."
Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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.
There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
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.
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.
Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.
May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.
All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.