Teaching Peace

What does it look like - teaching peace? I send these quotes out to the world, a message in a bottle, hoping to connect and inspire someone out there. Somewhere among these quotes is a lesson in peace. I trust you will find it.

“When you seek revenge, start by digging two graves.”
--Confucius

“It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
--Alfred Adler

“Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable."
--J. F. Kennedy

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
--Martin Luther King

“If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful."
--C. S. Lewis

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
--Soren Kierkegaard

“When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous
crimes have been comitted in the name of obedience than have been
comitted in the name of rebellion."
--C. P. Snow

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and
we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
--Michaelangelo

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
--Charles Darwin

“Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you
come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is
people who have come alive."
--Harold Whitman

“Nothing happens unless first a dream."
--Carl Sandburg

“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we
discover."
--Henri Poincare

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
--Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

“My religion is simple, my religion is kindness."
--Dalai Lama

"Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of
force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by
the spirit."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Most of these quotes are from http://www.eqed.co.uk/Quotes_for_Transformation.pdf accessed 2/2/08 (Groundhog Day!).

What are your thoughts? Post a few of them here using complete sentences.