"Today the real test of power is not the capacity to make 
war, but capacity to prevent it."   
                                  --Anne O'Hare McCormick
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     "It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human 
race proved to be nothing more that the story of an ape playing 
with a box of matches on a petrol dump."
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     "Hitherto, man had to live with the idea of death as an 
individual, from now onward, mankind will have to live with the 
idea of its death as a species."
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     "The survivors would envy the dead."
                                  --Nikita Khruschev, 1962

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     "Where there is no vision, the people perish."
                                  --Proverbs 29:18

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     "If we do not change our direction, we are likely to wind up 
      where we are headed."
                                  --Ancient Chinese Proverb
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     "... We know who speaks for nations,
             but who speaks for the human species--
                 who speaks for earth..."
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     "Whatever the case in the past, war in the future can serve
      no useful purpose.  A war which might become general, as any
      limited action might, could only result in the virtual
      destruction of Mankind."
                                  --Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
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     "How can we standy by and do nothing to prevent the
      destruction of our world?... Since the threat to humanity 
      is the work of human beings, it is up to man to save himself 
      from himself."
                                  --Lord E.L. Mountbatten, 1979
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     "If we're going to save ourselves from the instruments of our
      own intellect, we had better soon get ourselves under control
      and begin making the world safe for living."
                                  --General Omar Bradley, 1957
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     BUDDHISM:
     Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find
     hurtful.
                                  --Udanavarga 5:18
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     ISLAM:
     No one of you is a believer until he desires for his
     brother that which he desires for himself.
                                  --Sunan
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     HINDUISM:
     Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if
     done to you.
                                  --Mahabharata 5:1517
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     CHRISTIANITY:
     All things whatsoever you would that men should do to you,
     do ye even so to them.
                                  --Matthew 7:12
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     JUDAISM:
     What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man.
                                  --Talmud, Chabbat 31a
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     CONFUCIANISM:
     Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you.
                                  --Analects 15:23
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     Do unto others what they would have you do unto them.
                                  --Unknown, 1980
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     "A billion seconds ago it was 1951.  A billion minutes ago
      Jesus was alive and walking in Galilee.  A billion hours
      ago no one walked on two feet on earth.  And a billion
      dollars ago was 10.3 hours in Washington, D.C."
                                  --Alexander Trowbridge
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     "I do not believe that we can prepare for war and at the
      same time prepare for a world community.  When humanity
      holds in its hand the weapon with which it can commit
      suicide, I believe that to put more power into the gun
      is to increase the probability of disaster."
                                  --Albert Einstein, 1946
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     "We may be seeing that growing up in a world dominated by
      the threat of imminent nuclear destruction is having an
      impact on the structure of personality itself."
                                  --John E. Mack, MD
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     "It isn't enough to talk about peace.  One must believe
      in it.  And it isn't enought to believe in it.  One must
      work for it."
                                  --Eleanor Roosevelt, 1951
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     "We have met the enemy and he is us."
                                  --POGO (Walt Kelly)
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     "There is no scientific antidote [to the atomic bomb],
      only education.  You've got to change the way people think."
                                  --Albert Einstein
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     "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
      citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it's the only thing
      that ever has."
                                  --Margaret Mead
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     "All this is necessary for the forces of evil to win the
      world is for enough good men to do nothing."
                                  --E. Burke 1729-1797
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     "Many little things, Done in many little places, By many
      little people will change the face of the world"
                                   --Ancient Chinese Saying
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     "With thousands of nuclear explosives in the world everyone must
      come to understand that a military solution of any kind is not
      a solution at all."
                                   --Victor F. Weisskopf, Physicist
                                     March 1983
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     "War in our time has become an anachronism.  Whatever the case
      in the past, war in the future can serve no useful purpose.
      A war which becomes general, as any limited action might, could
      only result in the virtual destruction of Mankind."
                                   -- Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower
                                      July, 1957
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     "If our aim is to save humanity, we must respect the humanity 
      of every person.  For who shall be the enemy?"
                                   --Jonathan Schell, 1982
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     "No great improvements in the lot of Mankind are possible
      until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution 
      of their modes of thought."
                                   --John Stuart Mill, 1817-1863
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     "The often very deep difference between cultures should not be
      seen as divisions between people.  Instead cultures should be
      interpreted for what they really are: the ultimate declaration
      of belonging to the human species.  We are one people; and we
      can all strive for one aim: the peaceful and equitable survival
      of humanity."
                                   --Richard Leakey, 1977
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     "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose
      time has come."
                                  --Victor Hugo, 1852
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     "If 5 percent of the people work for peace, peace will
      prevail."
                                  --Albert Einstein
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     "Commitment to any of the greatest enterprises is heroic
      because it is a commitment to the unknown... A great 
      enterprise is one for which a reliable timetable is impossible.  
      By definition it is what has never before been accomplished."
                                  --Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress
                                    1981
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     "I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore
     choose life, that you and your descendants may live."
                                  --Deuteronomy 30:19, The Bible
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     "In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region
      even a country.  Now it is the whole planet that has come under
      threat.  This fact should fully compel everyone to face a basic
      moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious
      choice and then deliberate policy that humanity can survive."
                                  --Pope John Paul II, 2/81
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        "Why? Why? Why?"
                        -- A Soul Of A Dead Person As It Enters Hell
                           From "The Making Of Men" 
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