The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace. (Holly Near)

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service. (Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 German-born American Physicist)

Someday they’ll declare a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967)

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. (Mohandas Gandhi)

The dove of peace has become the ostrich of complacency. (Jeanne Kirkpatrick)

Americans have, for the most part, been exempt from the genuine tragedy of war and, as a consequence, seem more ready to accept their myths about war. They have never endured the reality against which other nations readily measure the cost of combat. And this makes us a very dangerous people. (Richard A. Gabriel)

We must love one another or die. (W. H. Auden)

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. (Croesus of Lydia)

I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land. Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake. (Martin Luther King Jr.- Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech - Dec 1964)

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence. (Dennis Kucinich)

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. (U Thant)

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. (Bernard Baruch)

Judging by what I have learned about men and women, I am convinced that far more idealistic aspiration exists than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are much less numerous than the underground streams, so the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what men and women carry in their hearts, unreleased or scarcely released. Mankind is waiting and longing for those who can accomplish the task of untying what is knotted and bringing the underground waters to the surface. (Albert Schweitzer)

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. (Gandhi, 1869-1948)

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. (Abigail Van Buren)

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. (Pentagon official, on why the US military censored graphic footage from the first Gulf War)

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming ALL other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas A. Edison)

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. (Howard Zinn)

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. (Max Lerner)

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968)

We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968)

Let them go to war; for only then will they become the greatest advocates for peace. There will never ever be created a greater lover of peace, than the soldier of war. (Dean Fraser)

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA)

War is never an answer, for if you hit someone, unless they are of a very high order of light, they are going to want at some point in time to hit back. (Lady Kadjina) - www.citiesoflight.net/ladyk.html

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies. (Basil O'Connor)

…why is there still war that appears as though it is impossible to divert in the Middle East? Ah beloved, there is karma between the factions, and karma that must be settled so that humanity can lift beyond warfare as a paradigm in the settlement of disputes. Therefore, judge not the current dance underway, as it serves as a teacher to the collective human species. And what are these lessons to be learned? It is time for human’s en mass to unite and demand peace. In so doing, world peace will one day emerge, as all leadership that would guide otherwise will have been thrown out of office, or fail to get re-elected. (The Tao through Karen Danrich) - www.ascendpress.org

…any human who is violated in warfare or any other travesty is experiencing the karmic return of a violation incurred towards another of parallel kind in another lifetime in one’s ancestry. And therefore the victims of war or any travesty are not innocent, nor are they victims. They have called the experience unto themselves due to the karma that their ancestry holds and to learn the spiritual lessons that violence, abuse and warfare offer.

Each human is responsible for one’s own spiritual lessons. No human, even of great level of mastery, can take away the lessons other humans have to learn in order to evolve, or the collective human species has to learn to evolve into a new dance of unity and honor. If war is chosen by the collective human species, there are spiritual lessons associated. Such lessons will be allowed by earth and her ensouling factor so that war can one day be put behind the human experience and expression altogether. This cannot occur until humans learn the lessons of war, and then choose to lay the guns aside and resolve their differences through negotiations instead. (The Shark Kingdom through Karen Danrich "Mila") - www.ascendpress.org

When we have learnt the lessons, then we'll lessen the pain. (Dean Fraser)

There are few disputes that cannot eventually be settled through diplomacy, but it requires goodwill on both sides. At present you have a leadership that is only interested in self aggrandizement and global domination. Where you are now, is a great challenge to those who oppose war and wish for peace amongst all men. The giants amongst men are rising up and making their voices heard, and even the closed media has to concede some space to these people. They are gathering support and so many of you are questioning the way in which you have been used. The more you talk amongst your selves, the more you will stimulate others to see beyond the official view of news and how it should be presented. You will begin to break out of the mould that has brainwashed you for eons of time. It is time to insist upon being told the truth.

I encourage you to look deeper into events that are now taking place in your lives. See the real motives that lie behind decisions that are made in your name. Demand the truth, and no more lies. Your voices carry power and no authorities like to be questioned, but if you persist you will enforce changes. I will use an expression that many use, and that is “it is time to stand up and be counted” and the more of you that band together, the stronger your voice will be and more difficult to ignore. Great help will accompany your efforts and we will back you and protect you in such important and necessary action. You will be instrumental in the removal of the dark and help those who have a more direct involvement. Success is to be yours and victory will be your prize. (St. Germain through Mike Quinsey)