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Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

 

Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. —Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. —Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer

 

Lewis H. Lapham, American writer and editor

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. —Lewis H. Lapham, American writer and editor

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. —Lewis H. Lapham, American writer and editor

 

János Arany, Hungarian writer and poet

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. —János Arany, Hungarian writer and poet

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. —János Arany, Hungarian writer and poet

 

Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian activist

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. —Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian activist

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. —Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian activist

 

Charles Darwin, British naturalist

… with all his noble qualities … with all these exalted powers … Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. —Charles Darwin, British naturalist

… with all his noble qualities … with all these exalted powers … Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. —Charles Darwin, British naturalist

 

Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer

A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. —Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer

A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. —Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer

 

Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

 

Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

 

Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —Samuel Johnson, 18th century British author and critic