Amelia Earhart (1898-1937(?))
Early aviator.

Courage is the price that love exacts for granting peace.

Meister Eckhart (1260-1329)
German Mystic

If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you that would suffice.

Marian W Edelman (1939-)

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Desmond Egan (1936-)
Contemporary Irish writer.

THE NORTHERN IRELAND QUESTION
two wee girls
were playing tig near a car
how many counties would you say
are worth their scattered fingers?

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Nobel Laureate Physicist

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones.
We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism! How intensely I despise them.
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and 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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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 .
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.'
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionist and rebels men and women who dare to disssent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Paul Eldridge (1888-1982)
US Educator and poet.

Man is always ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

George Eliot (1819-1880)
English author.

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
English poet.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war andthey are screened at once from scrutiny ... In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
US writer

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Epictetus (c AD 50)

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Louise Erdrich (1954-)
Chippewa-U.S. writer, poet

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Euripides (480-406 BC)
Greek dramatist

Slight not what is near, while aiming at what is far.

Ann Fairbairn
Five Smooth Stones

Interior presence cannot occupy the human soul at the same time that it is occupied by hatred.

Austin Farrar

'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 


William  Faulkner   (1897-1962)
 The Sound and the Fury


....no battle is ever won...they are not even fought.  The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Henry Fielding (1707-1754)


Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, 
 With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; 
 With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, 
 And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. 


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


John A.  Fisher (1841-1920)
Royal Navy Admiral.


The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
U.S. novelist.


No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Abraham Flexner (1866-1959)
American educational reformer


Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Gerald R.  Ford (1913-)
US President


All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Henry Emerson Fosdick  (1879-1969)


Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.


The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


John Fowles (1926-)
The Magus,1965


I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them.


Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 


Anatole France (1844-1924)


It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.


To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Anne  Frank  (1929-1945)
German-Dutch diarist


I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Viktor  Frankl (1905-)
Austrian originator of the psychotherapeutic school of logotherapy


We who lived in concentration camps can remember those who walked through the huts comforting  others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer  sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a person but the last of the human  freedoms --to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances -- to choose one's own way. 


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 


Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)


That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.


They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Paulo Freire (1921-1997)
Brazilian Educationalist


Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Sigmund  Freud (1856-1939)


The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. 


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Robert Fulghum (1937-)


The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Thomas  Fuller (1608-1661)
English historian and biographer


A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)


My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Mahatma Gandhi 


A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon,  and the world has not yet known anything that can match it. 


Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.


Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is  just. 


For the nonviolent person, the whole world is one family. He will fear none, nor will others fear him. 


Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.


I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity. 


If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of  nonviolence. 


If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken. 


It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the  enemies are converted into friends. 


My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected. 


My religion is based on truth and nonviolence. Truth is my God. Nonviolence is the means of realizing  Him. 


No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred. 


Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. 


Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. 


Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to. 


The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without  becoming weaker. 


The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it. 


There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence. 


There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only,  truth and nonviolence. 


Truth and nonviolence are no cloistered virtues but are applicable as much in the forum and the  legislatures as in the market-place. 


When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to  isolated acts. 


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Siddhartha  Gautama (c  560-480 B C )
The Buddha


Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the  things which renew humanity.


Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Levi Gershon, Ben(Gersonides) (1288-1344)


A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. 


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Kahlil  Gibran (1883-1931)
The Prophet


Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion.


If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.


I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Andre  Gide (1869-1951)
French author


It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Fra Giovanni Giolondo (1433-1515)
Letter 1513 A.D.


I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. 
 There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, 
 but there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. 
 No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. 
  Take heaven.

 No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. 
 Take peace 

 The gloom of the world is but a shadow. 
 Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 


Bob  Goddard (1893-1946)


Just remember--when you think all is lost, the future remains.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Joseph Paul  Goebbels (1897-1945)
German Nazi political leader


We have made the Reich by propaganda.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Hermann  Goering (1832-1946)
German Nazi political leader


Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along ... All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
German writer


He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.


One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.


Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do. 


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Daniel Goleman 
Quoting a teacher of aikido, 
  in Emotional Intelligence


Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Mikhail  Gorbachev (1931-)
Former soviet leader


Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. 


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Lawrence Gould 


I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our  civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care when the spiritual forces that  make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Katharine Graham (1917-  )
U.S. newspaper executive


Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940)


Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Gerhard  Groote (1340-1384)
Dutch Roman Catholic mystic


One who is at peace can draw good from everything.