For every ailment under the sun,
There be a cure - or there be none.
If there be one, try and find it.
If there be none, then never mind it.
--Mother Goose
If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.
--Chinese Proverb
In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.
--Buddha
Life is swept along,
next-to-nothing its span.
For one swept on by aging
no shelters exist.
Perceiving this danger in death,
one should drop the world's bait
and look for peace.
--The Buddha
“To initiate a war of aggression… is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”
--Robert Jackson, US representative at the Nuremberg trials
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
--Thomas Edison