"Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world."

-- Oscar Arias

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Arms Quotes

“It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.”
“Drug-use is a terminal disease.”

Source : "Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.
“The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.”
“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”
“The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane.”

Source : Colman McCarthy (2002). “I'd Rather Teach Peace”
“There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.”
“There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.”

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