I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

We must therefore… hold them [the British] as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

To have a happy family is to enjoy an earlier heaven.

realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.

And we can't all just get along. Rather, we have to become the kinds of persons who can get along. As a major part of this, our epidermal responses have to be changed in such a way that the fire and the fight doesn't start almost immediately when we are "rubbed the wrong way." Solitude and silence give us a place to begin the necessary changes, though they are not a place to stop.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Men cannot be our enemies--even men called Vietcong! If we kill men, what brothers will we have left? With whom shall we live then?

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.