Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- Topic: Conflict, Peace
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
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We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.
