Gary Willmott

“A man cannot possibly be at peace with others until he has learned to be at peace with himself.”
― Bertrand Russell

“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.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“So I might be over two thousand miles from my next hot meal, cold beer or decent shower, but at least I wasn't strap-hanging in the overcrowded train carriages of London's Waterloo and City Line, crammed into the armpit of a stranger.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in stars
To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house,
that your eyes might be shining for me
When I came.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph