Instead of war, there can be civilian-based defense: planned-ahead, trained protest and refusal to cooperate, and disruptive acts such as strikes and boycotts. By such nonviolent means, ordinary people acting together can win out over attempted takeover at home or from abroad. A civilian population can (as in Poland) refuse to be convinced it has […]
Peace Quotes
Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile – smile five times a day to someone you don’t really want to smile at all – do it for peace. So let us radiate the peace of God and so light his […]
There is no way to peace, peace is the way.
Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Arise then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly, “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking of carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from […]
People live in constant fear lest the storm that every moment threatens should break upon them with dreadful violence. And with good reason, for the arms of war are ready at hand… Disagreements (between nations) must be settled, not by force… but rather in the only manner which is worthy of the dignity of man, […]
Your people – the (Quaker) Friends – have had and are having a very great trial. On principle, and faith, opposed to both war and oppression, they can only practically oppose oppression by war. In this hard dilemma some have chosen one horn and some the other. For those appealing to me on conscientious grounds, […]
Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
