Ubuntu Quotes - Page 8

• If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

  Sophie Kerr

  Peace, War, Pageantry

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• The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Real, Lying

  Bertrand Russell, Dora Russell (1959). “The Prospects of Industrial Civilization”, p.216, Psychology Press

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• If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 460,000,000 years old. It could end in an afternoon.

  Arundhati Roy

  Religious, Peace, Men

  "The End of Imagination". Book by Arundhati Roy, 1998.

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• It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

  Arundhati Roy

  Peace, War, Evil

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.133, Penguin Books India

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• I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Peace, Hate, War

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• A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us, then, try what love will do: for if men do once see that we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains; and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Love, Peace, Mean

  "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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• Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.

  Ida Tarbell

  Sports, Peace, War

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Children, Passion

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• What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Political, Understanding

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

  Rod Serling

  Peace, Prejudice, Records

  The Twilight Zone (television show), 4 Mar. 1960

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• When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

  Alice Paul

  Peace, Women, Hands

  "The Women’s Deliberation Movement" by Shelley Hendrix Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

  Maria Montessori

  Peace, War, Educational

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• Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

  Kin Hubbard

  Peace, War, Victory

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.139, Indiana University Press

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• Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

  Peter Ustinov

  Peace, Money, War

  "Achtung! Vorurteile". Book by Peter Ustinov, February 10, 2003.

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• It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Struggle, Long

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• Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Inspirational, Peace, Passivity Is

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• It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

  Thomas Jefferson

  Peace, Integrity, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Peace, Long, Simple Living

  "The Medium is the Massage : An Inventory of Effects". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967.

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• I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Thinking, People

  "Start With a Flower". Interview with Sharon Salzberg, www.lionsroar.com. June 10, 2017.

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• What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

  Chris Abani

  Philosophy, Compassion, Simple

  "On humanity". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, Peace, War

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

  Adrienne Rich

  Peace, People, Empowering

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

  Alfred Adler

  Peace, War, Path

  Alfred Adler (2005). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1931-1937”, p.128, Alfred Adler Institute

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• We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

  Serj Tankian

  Peace, War, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, War, Communication

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

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