You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. —Peace Pilgrim More about this quote Tags: power wrong right righteousness opposition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: power impotence weakness change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The moral high ground is wreathed in fog. —Arthur Miller More about this quote Tags: morality righteousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: ignorance wrong rejection deny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The situation of the world is still like this. People completely identify with one side, one ideology. ... 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 describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy peace identity ideology reconciliation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. —Solomon Short More about this quote Tags: war history humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: politics peace people governments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. —Anne O’Hare McCormick More about this quote Tags: war peace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: hearts man ethics evil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Tags: war politics warfare resolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: war peace destruction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone speaks of peace; no one knows what peace is. We know at best a poisoned peace. No one has lived on an earth without weapons, without war and the threat of war on a large and small scale. —Christina Thürmer-Rohr More about this quote Tags: war peace weapons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It’s odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian don’t hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and, most entertainingly, to “rid the world of evildoers.” —Arundhati Roy More about this quote Tags: war peace irrationality democracy terrorism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
J. Robert Oppenheimer, witnessing the first test of a nuclear weapon, confessed to tasting sin. But he and all his colleagues knew from the beginning what lay waiting at the end of the project. And which was the stronger flavor, the sin, or the satisfaction of having stolen fire from the gods? —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: nuclear weapons gods sin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: war weapons failure bombs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email