The Dalai Lama
“Because we all share this small planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity.”
Harold Pinter
“It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940’s, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.”
Mark Twain
“It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Conscientious Objector. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him leading his horse out of the stall; I hear the clatter on the barn-floor…”
Pope John Paul II
“This is the message of the Jubilee, this is my hope at the beginning of a new Millennium. War is a defeat for humanity.”
Donald Saunders
“War never solves anything – it accentuates any problem… There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it.”
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