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You measure a government by how few people need help.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
Compromise does not mean cowardice.
Democracies die behind closed doors.
They make a desert and call it peace.
All works of love are works of peace.
Accurst be he that first invented war.
One more such victory and we are undone.
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.
Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.
In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.
Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.
You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.
There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.
