Most people I meet assume that Christian means very conservative, entrenched in their thinking, antigay, antichoice, angry, violent, illogical, empire builders; they want to convert everyone, and they generally cannot live peacefully with anyone who doesn't believe what they believe.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

It is no great thing to mingle with the good and the meek, for this is naturally pleasing to all, and every one of us willingly enjoyeth peace and liketh best those who think with us: but to be able to live peaceably with the hard and perverse, or with the disorderly, or those who oppose us, this is a great grace and a thing much to be commended and most worthy of a man.

How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

I'm about unity.