Words of Wisdom for Troubled Times

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
-Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi-

Hating is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

-Harry Fosdick-

The use of force is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again.

-Edmund Burke-

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

-Neville Chamberlain-

Civilization is a constant quest for non-violent means of solving conflicts; it is a common quest for peace.

-Max Ascoli-

What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping it's head in the dark.

-Henry Ford-

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

-Mao Tse-Tung-

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

-Jonathan Swift-

The measure of civilization is the degree in which the method of cooperative intelligence replaces the method of brute force.
-John Dewey-

When a man is doing something he's ashamed of, he always declares it is his duty.
-George Bernard Shaw-

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear
-Krishnamurti-

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate'
-John F. Kennedy-

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
-W.R. Inge-