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. –Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
—Marie Curie
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
–Mark Twain
“(God) has revealed to me that you should adopt humility so that no one oppresses another.”
— the Prophet Muhammad
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. It is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
–Hermann Göring (leading member of the Nazi Party during WWII)
Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
–Robert Frost, “Birches”
Und weil wir dies Land verbessern
, lieben und beschirmen wir’s
, und das Liebste mag’s uns scheinen
, so wie andern Völkern ihrs.
And since this is the land we’re working to improve, let us love and protect it, and may our land seem dearest to us — just as their own land seems dearest to other nations.
–Bertolt Brecht, Kinderhymne (1950)
Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto: Me ha dado el sonido y el abecedario, con él las palabras que pienso y declaro; madre, amigo, hermano y luz alumbrando; la ruta del alma del que estoy amando
— Violeta Parra
“When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.”
— Chris Rock
“There ain’t no bargains in people. You get what you pay for — and the currency is Trouble.”
— Italian American Reconciliation, John Patrick Shanley