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#1

“Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could. ”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

tags: pacifism, war

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#2

“If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.”
― William Edgar Stafford, Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War

tags: pacifism

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#3

“Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.”
― William Faulkner, The Unvanquished: The Corrected Text

tags: fighting, men, pacifism, pacifists, war

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#4

“I think about something I once heard on the radio. About Abraham and Isaac."
"I was afraid you'd say something like that."
"You asked."
"So what about them? I don't really know much about that kind of stuff."
"There was a pastor on the radio who said nobody should ever preach that story. Do you remember how it goes? God tells Abraham that he has to sacrifice his son to prove his faith."
"I agree with the pastor. It sounds like a sick story. Ban that shit."
"But isn't that exactly what we do? Send young men off to a war in the desert and ask them to sacrifice themselves for a belief?”
― A.J. Kazinski, The Last Good Man

tags: pacifism, war

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#5

“And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

tags: king-arthur, life, merlin, nobility, pacifism, peace, war

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#6

“The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass.

Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.”
― Rachel Maddow, Drift

tags: defense, economics, military, pacifism, war

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#7

“She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. Theorem, anti-theorem, corollary, anti-corollary. Underline it twice. It’s all there in the numbers. Listen to your mother. Listen to me, Joshua. Look me in the eyes. I have something to tell you.”
― Colum McCann

tags: anti-war, armies, children, lessons, let-the-great-world-spin, loss, mother, murder, pacifism, patriotism, politics, war

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#8

“The idea that war can ever bring freedom is quite possibly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.”
― Michel Templet

tags: pacifism, philosophy, war

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#9

“On 11 September 2001, a bunch of Saudis killed almost 3000 US civilians, which led to the construction of a monument in New York City. My question is: Are we also going to build monuments in Kabul, Baghdad, and Tripoli to commemorate the thousands of civilians the US has killed since then? By the way, I should mention that neither Kabul, Baghdad, nor Tripoli is in Saudi Arabia; supposedly, the Saudis are our “friends”, and if you'll forgive the old cliché, with friends like these, who needs enemies?”
― Michel Templet

tags: 9-11, pacifism, war-on-terror

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#10

“I find it significant that most of the people who believe in just war have never fought in one; examples: Barack W. Bush and George H. Obama.”
― Michel Templet

tags: just-war, pacifism, politics

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#11

“I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.”
― Michel Templet

tags: military-veterans, pacifism, war

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#12

“Is it morally acceptable to murder one hundred innocent people in the process of catching a serial killer who has murdered ten people? If you think World War II was justified, your answer should be yes.”
― Michel Templet

tags: just-war, pacifism, world-war-ii

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#13

“Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact?”
― Michel Templet, I'll Never Go Home Again

tags: pacifism, philosophy, war

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#14

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion

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#15

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace

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#16

“When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”
― Jeanne DuPrau , The People of Sparks

tags: awesome, books-of-ember, city-of-ember, goodness, jeanne-duprau, lina, peace, people-of-sparks, right-choices, war

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#17

“If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.”
― Hiro Mashima

tags: don-t-want-it, haru, killing, peace, rave-master

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#18

“There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.”
― Tony Benn

tags: peace, terrorism, uk, war

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#19

“The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry at that person, if you haven't been able to forgive, you are chained to him. Everyone could feel the emotional truth of that: When someone offends you and you haven't let go, every time you see him, you grow breathless or your heart skips a beat. If the trauma was really severe, you dream of revenge. Above you, is the Mountain of Peace and Prosperity where we all want to go. But when you try to climb that hill, the person you haven't forgiven weighs you down. It's a personal choice whether or not to let go. No one can tell you how long to mourn a death or rage over a rape. But you can't move forward until you break that chain.”
― Leymah Gbowee, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

tags: conviction, life-lessons, moving-on, peace, revenge

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#20

“We should use our imagination more than our memory.”
― Shimon Peres

tags: future, history, imagination, peace, progress

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#21

“It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.”
― Mike Norton

tags: bigotry, buddha, buddha-nature, buddhism, capitalism, communism, country, genocide, kennedy, mankind, peace, politics, racism, socialism, violence, war

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#22

“Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.”
― Sari Nusseibeh

tags: israel, palestine, peace

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#23

“The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.”
― Jeannette Rankin

tags: militarism, peace, propaganda, war

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#24

“Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.”
― Martin Scorsese

tags: peace

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#25

“First, people should open their eyes to see structural sin, which is the very existence of a First and Third World. As long as there's a First World, there won't be peace because there won't be justice or sharing. (Pedro Casaldaliga, p. 243)”
― Mev Puleo, The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

tags: first-world, peace, sin, third-world

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#26

“If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: considerate, happiness, happy, inconsiderate, peace, problem, problem-solving, self-control, selfishness, selflessness, solution, together, ultimate, ultimate-answer, unity, working-together, world, worth, worthiness, worthy

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#27

“Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways -- they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs -- they got progressively more agitated. Finally, they got so agitated that it took horrible form.”
― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World

tags: communication, empathy, gentleness, nonviolence, peace, terrorism, terrorists, violence

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#28

“Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of these feelings and needs, people lose their desire to attack back because they can see the human ignorance leading to these attacks; instead, their goal becomes providing the empathic connection and education that will enable them to transcend their violence and engage in cooperative relationships.”
― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World

tags: communication, nonviolence, peace, relationships, violence

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#29

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: autotune, bandwagon, compassion, culture, fads, flattery, gossip, knowledge, love, music, news, peace, pity, pop, pop-culture, pop-music, popular, popular-culture, popular-music, propaganda, singing, tension, trends

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#30

“Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity. Because if you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which are critical factors in counteracting negative emotions, it is due to your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy.”
― The Dalai Lama

tags: compassion, compassion-wisdom, enemy, inspirational, interaction, kindness, patience, peace, wisdom

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