AustinGranny.com - Waging Peace

A dog that barks at random makes all the street bark in earnest.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak
is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. — Eleanor Holmes Norton

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King Jr.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. — Amelia Earhart

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. — Albert Einstein

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say; I just watch what they do.
— Andrew Carnegie

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even, if you will, eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with.
— Joseph Brodsky

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. — Janet Reno

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.
— Elayne Boosler

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
— H. G. Wells

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
— Abba Eban

Nigerian folk saying:
Not to know is bad.
Not to want to know is worse.
Not to hope is unthinkable.
Not to care is unforgivable.

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." He also said, "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." He said, "Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play." — Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. — William McKinley

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
— Joseph Stalin

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. — Max Lerner

All warfare is based on deception. — Unknown

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole government working for you.
All you have to do is report the facts. I don't even have to exaggerate. — Will Rogers

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President.
One hopes it is the same half. — Gore Vidal

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. — Gunter Grass

he biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell

To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
— Sources unknown

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
And he said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves." — Abraham Lincoln

It's got to be up to the brave people. — Joc Curran

It is ordinary for us to poison rivers also;
yea and the very elements whereof the world doth stand,
are by us infected: for even the air itself,
wherein and whereby all things should live,
we corrupt to their mischief and destruction.
— Pliny the Elder, the Natural History, tr. Philemon Holland

Wave the flag, trust your leaders and you will enjoy the fruits of your obedience.
— Soviet slogan

Casualty
by Virginia Hamilton Adair

Fear arrived at my door
with the evening paper
Headlines of winter and war
It will be a long time to peace
And the green rains

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