Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

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.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

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.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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.

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.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.