Peace Quotes - Page 26

• All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

  Vera Brittain

  Hate, Order, Suffering

  "What Can We Do In Wartime?", September 9, 1939.

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• You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Men, People, Society

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• We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

  Linda Chavez

  Brave New World, Price Tag, Attributes

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• Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Attitude, Play

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• To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.

  Barbara Deming

  Nice, Doe, Needs

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• Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

  George Eliot

  Love, Sorrow, Doe

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.227, Wordsworth Editions

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• A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.

  Etty Hillesum

  Attitude, Men, Space

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.258, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Ubuntu, Perfection

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• God accepts the risk of appearing to be unjust. God looks unjust, but he is not. He asks more from those to whom he gives more. They are not greater or better, they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve.

  Hélder Câmara

  Responsibility, Giving, Looks

  "Dom Helder Camara: essential writings".

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• Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Abuse, Foundation, Males

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• The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Lying, Those Who Lie, Heels

  Daniel Berrigan (1996). “Isaiah: Spirit of Courage, Gift of Tears”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

  Ernest Bevin

  War, Thinking, Men

  Hansard 23 Nov. 1945, col. 786

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• Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

  John Boyes

  Voice, Violence, Reason

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• . . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

  Frederick Buechner

  Hands, Giving, Slipping

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• The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

  Pema Chodron

  Happiness, Spiritual, Honesty

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.43, Shambhala Publications

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• War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Limits, Violence

  "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

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• No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Stress, Caring

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• It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

  Dorothy Day

  Community Living, Giving, Penance

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• God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

  Ruby Dee

  Uncomfortable, American Woman

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• Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

  Barbara Deming

  Effectiveness, Wife, Battle

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Freedom, Tyrants, Long

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1949). “Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle”, New York : New Century Publishers

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• The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

  John T. Flynn

  Moving, Destiny, Oil

  John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

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• The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Risk, Mediocrity, Absence

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• Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

  Erich Fromm

  Productive Work, Able, Quiet

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.107, Routledge

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• God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

  Bayard Rustin

  Ubuntu, Humanity, Trying

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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