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- "Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make
- war, but capacity to prevent it."
- --Anne O'Hare McCormick
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- "It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human
- race proved to be nothing more that the story of an ape playing
- with a box of matches on a petrol dump."
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- "Hitherto, man had to live with the idea of death as an
- individual, from now onward, mankind will have to live with the
- idea of its death as a species."
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- "The survivors would envy the dead."
- --Nikita Khruschev, 1962
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- "Where there is no vision, the people perish."
- --Proverbs 29:18
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- "If we do not change our direction, we are likely to wind up
- where we are headed."
- --Ancient Chinese Proverb
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- "... We know who speaks for nations,
- but who speaks for the human species--
- who speaks for earth..."
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- "Whatever the case in the past, war in the future can serve
- no useful purpose. A war which might become general, as any
- limited action might, could only result in the virtual
- destruction of Mankind."
- --Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
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- "How can we standy by and do nothing to prevent the
- destruction of our world?... Since the threat to humanity
- is the work of human beings, it is up to man to save himself
- from himself."
- --Lord E.L. Mountbatten, 1979
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- "If we're going to save ourselves from the instruments of our
- own intellect, we had better soon get ourselves under control
- and begin making the world safe for living."
- --General Omar Bradley, 1957
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- BUDDHISM:
- Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find
- hurtful.
- --Udanavarga 5:18
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- ISLAM:
- No one of you is a believer until he desires for his
- brother that which he desires for himself.
- --Sunan
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- HINDUISM:
- Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if
- done to you.
- --Mahabharata 5:1517
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- CHRISTIANITY:
- All things whatsoever you would that men should do to you,
- do ye even so to them.
- --Matthew 7:12
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- JUDAISM:
- What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man.
- --Talmud, Chabbat 31a
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- CONFUCIANISM:
- Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you.
- --Analects 15:23
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- Do unto others what they would have you do unto them.
- --Unknown, 1980
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- "A billion seconds ago it was 1951. A billion minutes ago
- Jesus was alive and walking in Galilee. A billion hours
- ago no one walked on two feet on earth. And a billion
- dollars ago was 10.3 hours in Washington, D.C."
- --Alexander Trowbridge
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- "I do not believe that we can prepare for war and at the
- same time prepare for a world community. When humanity
- holds in its hand the weapon with which it can commit
- suicide, I believe that to put more power into the gun
- is to increase the probability of disaster."
- --Albert Einstein, 1946
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- "We may be seeing that growing up in a world dominated by
- the threat of imminent nuclear destruction is having an
- impact on the structure of personality itself."
- --John E. Mack, MD
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- "It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe
- in it. And it isn't enought to believe in it. One must
- work for it."
- --Eleanor Roosevelt, 1951
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- "We have met the enemy and he is us."
- --POGO (Walt Kelly)
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- "There is no scientific antidote [to the atomic bomb],
- only education. You've got to change the way people think."
- --Albert Einstein
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- "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
- citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing
- that ever has."
- --Margaret Mead
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- "All this is necessary for the forces of evil to win the
- world is for enough good men to do nothing."
- --E. Burke 1729-1797
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- "Many little things, Done in many little places, By many
- little people will change the face of the world"
- --Ancient Chinese Saying
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- "With thousands of nuclear explosives in the world everyone must
- come to understand that a military solution of any kind is not
- a solution at all."
- --Victor F. Weisskopf, Physicist
- March 1983
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- "War in our time has become an anachronism. Whatever the case
- in the past, war in the future can serve no useful purpose.
- A war which becomes general, as any limited action might, could
- only result in the virtual destruction of Mankind."
- -- Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- July, 1957
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- "If our aim is to save humanity, we must respect the humanity
- of every person. For who shall be the enemy?"
- --Jonathan Schell, 1982
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- "No great improvements in the lot of Mankind are possible
- until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution
- of their modes of thought."
- --John Stuart Mill, 1817-1863
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- "The often very deep difference between cultures should not be
- seen as divisions between people. Instead cultures should be
- interpreted for what they really are: the ultimate declaration
- of belonging to the human species. We are one people; and we
- can all strive for one aim: the peaceful and equitable survival
- of humanity."
- --Richard Leakey, 1977
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- "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose
- time has come."
- --Victor Hugo, 1852
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- "If 5 percent of the people work for peace, peace will
- prevail."
- --Albert Einstein
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- "Commitment to any of the greatest enterprises is heroic
- because it is a commitment to the unknown... A great
- enterprise is one for which a reliable timetable is impossible.
- By definition it is what has never before been accomplished."
- --Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress
- 1981
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- "I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore
- choose life, that you and your descendants may live."
- --Deuteronomy 30:19, The Bible
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- "In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region
- even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under
- threat. This fact should fully compel everyone to face a basic
- moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious
- choice and then deliberate policy that humanity can survive."
- --Pope John Paul II, 2/81
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- "Why? Why? Why?"
- -- A Soul Of A Dead Person As It Enters Hell
- From "The Making Of Men"
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