“The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!”

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”

“War is not ‘the best way of settling differences;’ it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.”

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

We make war that we may live in peace.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.