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Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquoror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
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We all have the power to give love. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in.
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
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The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.
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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
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Contribution #3666
The day we stop killing off our own species, our world will become a book with no more torn pages.
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Voiced Education Project
Zoe Taylor, McClure Middle School, Seattle, WA
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Imagining the Color of Peace"
http://www.voiceseducation.org
Viewed on November 23, 2009
Contribution #3641
Whenever we teach our children that groundless faith is a virtue, we pave the way for groundless violence.
War would end if the dead could return.
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Peace . . . starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.
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The Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1989
Contribution #3556
Jaw jaw is better than war war.
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Generally speaking, the first nonviolent act is not fasting, but dialogue. The other side, the adversary, is recognized as a person, he is taken out of his anonymity and exists in his own right, for what he really is, a person. To engage someone in dialogue is to recognize him, have faith in him. At every step in the nonviolent struggle, at every level we try tirelessly to establish a dialogue, or reestablish it if it has broken down. When I say 'the other side,' that could be a group of persons or a government.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure.
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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.
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from Rev. Christopher Chenoweth: "I have said, many times, there are two types of people in this world, vacuums and sprinklers." from -Tirukkural - "What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroying life, for killing leads to every other sin. Of all virtues summed by ancient sages, the foremost are to share one's food and to protect all living creatures." from Swami Vivekananda - "Whenever darkness comes, assert the reality and everything adverse must vanish. For, after all, it is but a dream. Mountain high though the difficulties appear... they are but maya. Fear not - it is banished. Crush it and it vanishes... Go forward. Assert yourself again and again and light must come." from Plato – "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. " from Jimi Hendrix – “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
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a personal collection of wisdom quotes, compiled from various Scriptures and the Web
Contribution #3366
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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"Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal."
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Coyote Healing
Page 219
Published by Bear and Company
, U.S.A.
, March 2003
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Contribution #3355
For thousands of years of human history, utopian aspiration was ahead of economic means. But finally in the twenty-first century, technology has leapfrogged ahead of ideology. For the first time, we have the means to create a world where there is enough to go around, where oppression is not a necessary precondition to comfort. But the centuries of shortage are fresh in our memories, the rivalries and the cycles of vengeance have a life of their own, and must be soothed from our souls before we are ready for the Promised Land.
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Daily Inspiration
Josh Mitteldorf
"
Peaches and Cream; May 1, 2009"
http://daily-inspiration.org/
Viewed on June 11, 2009
Contribution #3266
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures... Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living.
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Daily Inspiration
John F. Kennedy
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May 29, 2009"
http://daily-inspiration.org/
Viewed on June 13, 2009
Contribution #3251
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
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"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell.
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If science is to carry on a meaningful dialogue with religion, it must work to establish a level playing field where both sides honestly address what we can and cannot know about ourselves and the world around us. We need to back away from perpetuating the all-knowing rational mind myth that makes real discussion impossible. At the same time, we need to acknowledge that the evidence for a visceral need for a sense of faith, purpose and meaning is as powerful as the evidence for evolution.
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On Being Certain
Page 196
Published by St. Martin's Press
, New York
, 2008
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Contribution #3182
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
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The Glass Bead Game
Page 493
Published by Picador
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Contribution #3168
We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.
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Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.
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Responsibility . . . lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.
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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1989
Contribution #2926
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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Contribution #2904
Let us contemplate the one simple nature of that peaceful unity which joins all things to itself and to each other, preserving them in their distinctiveness and yet linking them together in a universal and unconfused alliance.
--Many Voices / One Truth / Spirit of the World
We must devise a system in which peace is more rewarding than war.
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We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
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The three greatest concerns of men are these: to make him who is an enemy a friend, to make righteous him who is wicked, and to make the ignorant learned.
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Shayast-La-Shayasts
20:6 GZ 32:1
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Contribution #2679
Do not say, ‘I will do to him what he did to me; I will pay the man what he deserves.'
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Tanakh
Proverbs
24:29
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Contribution #2677
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your countrymen.
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Tanakh-Torah
Leviticus
19:18
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Contribution #2675
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink.
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Bible
Romans
12:17-20
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Contribution #2672
And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
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Bible
Luke
6:29-30
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Contribution #2670
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
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Bible
Matthew
5:38-42
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Contribution #2669
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2613
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
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Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
Contribution #2446
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
Contribution #2443
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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The spiritual warrior's discipline is gentleness. Asserting gentleness in all spheres of life, non-violence and peace are achieved.
I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety.
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Bible
Hosea
2:18
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Contribution #2075
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement.
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Contribution #1871
Reconciliation is to understand both sides, to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then to go to the other side, and then to go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace.
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Contribution #1870
If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
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Contribution #1851
If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
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Contribution #1849
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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Bible
Isaiah
2:4
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Contribution #1744
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.
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The Winds of War
by Herman Wouk
Published in 1971
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Contribution #1743
Emperor Yu corrupted the soul of mankind by legalizing murder. He claimed that in war, one killed enemies, not men, and that this was not evil.
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I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
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John F. Kennedy
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Contribution #181
What does peacemaking look like in a person?
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