War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.