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“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
― Albert Einstein

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
― Banksy

“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”
― Osho, Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within

“The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Laboring types surrounded me with bad teeth, parrot voices, and unfounded optimism.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
― Howard Zinn

“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”
― Chris Hedges

“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”
― Havelock Ellis

“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.”
― Jon Stewart

“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”
― Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo

“We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come. ”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

“Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

“The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.”
― James Oliver Curwood, The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild

“Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor and Franklin

“If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”
― Albert Einstein

“This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!”
― Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
― Albert Einstein

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
― Albert Einstein

“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
― Albert Einstein

“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”
― Albert Einstein

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
― Albert Einstein

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
― Albert Einstein