It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God. – Thomas Jefferson

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb–the most active and dynamic of all? ~ Mary Daly

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

We have made up a God in our image. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. But God remains who He is and always will be: He is the energy, the thought of unconditional love. He cannot think with anger or judgment. He is mercy and compassion and total acceptance.
~ Marianne Williamson

We are in the process of destroying an entire society, it is as simple and as terrifying as that. ~ Dennis Haliday – Former UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator to Iraq

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny… In war, then as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges. ~ William Ellery Channing

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. ~ Einstein

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers. ~ August Bebel (at the Reichstag)

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ~ Aldous Huxley

I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~ George McGovern

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ~ Moshe Dayan

The churches have sacrificed the teaching of Jesus to exigencies of the state. ~ Dr. W.E. Orchard

I find it strange that the last place I can really quote Jesus these days is in American churches. They don’t want to hear `overcome evil with good.’ They don’t want to hear `those who live by the sword die by the sword.’ They don’t want to hear `if your enemy hurts you, do good, feed, clothe, minister to him.’ They don’t want to hear `blessed are the merciful.’ They don’t want to hear `love your enemies.’ Tony Campolo, on the war effort, Christian Week Nov. 27, 2001

Love, not deadly force, is the Christian’s weapon. ~ John D. Roth

Does the commandment ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning “Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,’ or ‘Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so’? ~ Linus Pauling

I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ~ General Douglas MacArthur

Certified lunatics are shut up because of their proneness to violence when their pretensions are questioned; the uncertified variety are given the control of powerful armies, and can inflict death and disaster upon all sane men within their reach. ~ Bertrand Russell

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war…and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” ~ James Madison, April 20, 1795

Who cares what you think? (in response to a US citizen trying to express an opinion, after the press had left following a campaign appearance) ~ George W. Bush, 7/01