peace

Under the clouds of war

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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

former Republican President of the USA

There are no atheists in foxholes

“There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.

— James Morrow

Peace on earth

  • "All I want is peace on earth, good will toward men."
  • "We're the United States Government. We don't do that sort of thing!"
— from the movie Sneakers

Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all.

— David J. Constable

An eye for an eye

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All we are saying

All we are saying is give peace a chance

— John Lennon

All wars are fought

All wars are fought for money.

— Socrates

469-399 B.C.

Violence is the last refuge

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

— Isaac Asimov

War is Terrorism

War is Terrorism with a Bigger Budget

— sign at the SF peace rally, 1/18/2003

We had the kind of awakening

...it seemed to me we had the kind of awakening that the great religions first intended, and that somehow it involved everybody. There were kids there. There were old people there, and in other parts of the building there were people just dancing and dancing... we had a chance to awaken our hearts, unbound by any particular cultural or religious commitments to this group or that. It seemed to me, and I'm meaning this very seriously, a prime religious experience that transcended all the bondages and definitions of who and what we are that are the curse of the world today.

— Joseph Campbell

while attending a 1985 Grateful Dead Show

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