war is a drug

"The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug." -Chris Hedges, American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies.

Quote on Peace: George Bernard Shaw

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."

regarding nonviolence . . .

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Thinking in Poetry

"Anyone who feels poetry is an alien or ominous force should consider the style in which human beings think. 'How do you think?' I ask my students. 'Do you think in complete, elaborate sentences? In fully developed paragraphs with careful footnotes? Or in flashes and bursts of images, snatches of lines leaping one to the next, descriptive fragments, sensory details?' We think in poetry. But some people pretend poetry is far away."
-Voices from the Gaps

Thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.