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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Young India (Feb. 7, 1931) p. 162
- Power
I am not pleading for India to practice nonviolence because it is weak. I want her to practice nonviolence being conscious of her strength and power.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948The Doctrine of the Sword, Young India (11 August 1920)
- Power
We have seen the white men betray the flag and fight to kill the Union; but in all that long, dreary war we never saw a traitor in a black skin.
James A. Garfield1831–1881Speech to the ‘Boys in Blue’ (1880)
- Race
If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.
Bill Gatesborn 1955“The next outbreak? We’re not ready”, TED talk (3 April 2015)
- Health
France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.
Charles de Gaulle1890–1970Poster À tous les Français (To All Frenchmen), 3 August 1940.
You don’t need to be ‘straight’ to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
Barry Goldwater1909–1998Statement of 10 June 1993, as quoted in “Goldwater Backs Gay Troops” in The New York Times (11 June 1993)
I believe the media can be the greatest force for peace on Earth. Instead, all too often, it is wielded as a weapon of war. That has to be challenged.
Amy Goodmanborn 1957Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (2016), Introduction
- Journalism
Nuclear weapons are like a rifle hanging on the wall in a play. We did not write the play, we are not staging it and we do not know what the author intends. Anyone could take the rifle from the wall at any time.
Mikhail Gorbachev1931–2022What Is at Stake Now (2020)
All members of the world community should resolutely discard old stereotypes and motivations nurtured by the Cold War, and give up the habit of seeking each other’s weak spots and exploiting them in their own interests.
Mikhail Gorbachev1931–2022Nobel Address (1991)
Never before has the idea that peace is indivisible been so true as it is now.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
Mikhail Gorbachev1931–2022Nobel Address (1991)
Of course the people dont want war…that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Hermann Göring1893–1946In an interview with Gilbert in Göring’s jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946)
- Government
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Göring1893–1946Radio broadcast (1936), as quoted in The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage (1968) by William L. Safire, p. 178
- Guns
The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.
Hermann Göring1893–1946Nuremberg Diary (1947), p. 4 (1995 edition)
- Justice
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 67
- Truth & Lies
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 3
- History