On Peace

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

" Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians."- Molly Ivins

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame
of killing innocent people."– Howard Zinn

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars
for young men to die in."– George McGovern

"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate
it should be punished as criminals."– Charles Evans Hughes

"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first toshrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds
to bury the dead."- Arundhati Roy

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."- W.E.B. Dubois, 1897

"Nonviolence doesn't always work-but violence never does"- Madge Micheels-Cyrus

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."- Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."- Jimi Hendrix

"Democracies die behind closed doors." - Judge Damon J. Keith, Federal Court of Appeals

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does." - Margaret Mead

"Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither."
- Benjamin Franklin

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcolm X

"All we are saying...is give peace a chance."- John Lennon

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mohandas Gandhi