In a society where people are busy with their jobs, they will not have time to engage in violence because they will be preoccupied with work. But because they don't have jobs it is easier to behave in the wrong way - Xanana Gusm
In a country where children regularly die of malnutrition, all the Afghan mothers I know are far more interested in food, clinics and security. Liberation can wait...The West has been guilty of applying western precepts on an almost post-medieval economy. We need to address a basic economy with basic solutions. The lack of amenities is staggering. A quarter of children die by the age of five. Worrying about civil service reform and gender rights are really tomorrow's problems - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2261727_2,00.html
If the money spent on armaments was spent on education, there would be no more wars - President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha
Help us to seize control of the rogue aircraft on which humanity has embarked, and bring it to a safe landing before it is too late - Kofi Annan, speaking about nuclear weapons, November 2006
Given the existence and further emergence of so many global problems confronting humanity we can no longer afford the waste and enormous costs of wars, militaries and armaments. There is the absolute necessity to eradicate them once and for ever from this Earth - Robert Muller
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 not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, 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 cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron - Dwight Eisenhower
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 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 cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron - Dwight D Eisenhower
Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and the darkness will disappear - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Conflicts will diminish as our global, universal, spiritual, and cosmic awareness increase. By far the greatest contribution to peace an individual can make is to become a global, universal, and cosmic being - Robert Muller, A Planet of Hope, 1986