Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
--African Proverb

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not strike nor makes others strike, who robs not nor makes
others rob, sharing love with all that live, finds enmity with none.
--Itivuttaka 22

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

--Isaiah 2:4

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

--Colman McCarthy

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had.

--Joni Mitchell

One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despiceable an ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

-- Albert Einstein

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

--H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)