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"Man must evolve for all human conflict
a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that
in the process he does not become a monster."
-- Friedrich Nietzche

"War is like fire. You can prevent a fire,
or you can try to put it out
but you can't 'win' a fire."
-- H. H. Arnold

"You can no more win a war than win an earthquake."
-- Jeanette Rankin

"There never was a time when, in my opinion,
some way could not be found
to prevent the drawing of the sword."
-- Ulysses S. Grant

"One is left with the horrible feeling now
that war settles nothing;
that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
-- Agatha Christie

"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy.
There is nothing good in war. Except its ending."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"War does not determine who is right -- only who is left."
-- Bertrand Russell

"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war
appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous
of human illusions."
-- Robert Lynd

"I will permit no man
to narrow and degrade my soul
by making me hate him."
-- Booker T. Washington

"Non-violence is not inaction.
It is not discussion.
It is not for the timid or weak...
Non-violence is hard work.
It is the willingness to sacrifice.
It is the patience to win."
-- Cesar Chavez

"All people are a single nation."
-- The Koran

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek,
I am a citizen of the world."
-- Socrates

"My country is the world;
my countrymen are mankind."
-- William Lloyd Garrison

"Our true nationality is mankind."
-- H.G. Wells

"You'll never have a quiet world
till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Patriotism is the willingness
to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
-- Bertrand Russell