Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
› Rumi
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
› Benedict Spinoza
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
› Epicurus
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
› Albert Einstein
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
› St. Francis of Assisi
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
› Lao-tzu
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
› George Orwell
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
› Mohandas Gandhi
