“If
you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to
change it. You just do it one step at a time. -- Marian
Wright Edelman
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. -- Albert
Einstein
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Peace
cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved through understanding. --
Albert Einstein
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Peace
cannot be kept by force; it can only
be achieved through understanding.
-- Albert
Einstein
"There's
been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum
leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another,
there will be a catastrophe." -- Albert
Einstein
“The
splitting of the atom has changed everything except the way we think. Thus we
drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. We shall require a substantially new manner
of thinking if mankind is to survive.” --
Albert Einstein
"Perfection
of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely
and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents
of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state."
-- Albert Einstein
"In
the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed
by the binding force of mutual respect and love." -- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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"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
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
"We
can't do it by ourselves, but if enough of us do it, we change the cultural climate,
and then the leaders follow." -- Riane
Eisler
There are astonishing stories
of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which
lasts. -- Scilla Elworthy
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We
need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways
of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.
-- Scilla Elworthy
Peace
has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. ~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
We
must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world.
And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new
society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor,
even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and
justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow
we must open our hands. -- Adolfo
Perez Esquivel
We
have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The
opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure
compared to the task of reconciling our differences. -- M. P. Follett
Even
peace may be purchased at too high a price. -- Benjamin
Franklin
"The
making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from
year to year, so long as our civilization shall last." -- J. William
Fulbright
*Everywhere
we turn, we see violence and hate and prejudice and anger and all of these negative
emotions that are destroying humanity. And we have to wake up and take note of
this and try to change our course, so that we can create a world of peace and
harmony where future generations can live happily together. -- Arun
Gandhi
