For [Martin Luther] King nonviolence was more than a strategy; it was the way of life defined by love for others—the only way to heal broken humanity.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person. That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said. All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it. But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.