Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men
— Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
— John Donne
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred
— Albert Einstein
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned
— Heinrich Heine
I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated
— Nelson Mandela
For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred
— John W. Gardner
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the colour of their skin
— Wendell Lewis Willkie
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison
— Henry David Thoreau
True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring
— Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
Behind the maze of field trenches, in which working men and employees shot down each other while their bosses made good profits by it
— Kurt Tucholsky, First World War
Freedom from fear can never be seperated from freedom from want
— H.V. Evatt
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent
— Abraham Lincoln
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The arc of the moral universe is long but is bent towards justice
— Theodore Parker
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.... Returning violence for violence multiples violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that