"All we are saying.... Is give peace a chance.: :-)

Note that in providing these quotations, I am not necessarily endorsing the person who said them (e.g., Putin), but only the content of the statement itself.

Note also that these quotations speak to my belief that peace is active, dynamic cooperation, rather than just the absence of conflict. To have such cooperation, the shackles of oppressive domination hierarchies must broken and cast aside. There can be no true peace without justice.

"...all reality hinges on moral foundations...this is a moral universe, and...there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. We never doubt that there are physical laws of the universe that we must obey...And so we just don't jump out of airplanes or jump off of high buildings for the fun of it...Because we unconsciously know that there is a final law of gravitation, and if you disobey it you'll suffer the consequences…Even if we don't know it in its Newtonian formulation, we know it intuitively...But I'm not so sure if we know that there are moral laws just as abiding as the physical law...I'm not so sure if we really believe that there is a law of love in this universe, and that if you disobey it you'll suffer the consequences." - Martin Luther King, from a sermon titled "Rediscovering Lost Values."

"There is one root but there are many branches and each branch has many leaves. Diversity in unity is a wonderful law of the world. Therefore the Charkha Sangh [society of Indian homespun cloth spinners] has adopted as its policy the giving of as much encouragement as possible to decentralization." -- Gandhi

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck." - Frederick Douglass, in an Address at a Civil Rights meeting in 1883.

"Think Globally, Act Locally" - Attributed by some to Jacques Ellul, who was both a Christian theologian and a student of Marx, a combination of the spiritual and materialistic that suits the slogan well.

"The unipolar world refers to a world in which there is one master, one sovereign - one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making. At the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within.” - Vladimir Putin, speaking at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy, February the 10th, 2007.

"Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will… Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavour of fortune…this will should wholly lack power to accomplish its purpose, if with its greatest efforts it should yet achieve nothing, and there should remain only the good will (not, to be sure, a mere wish, but the summoning of all means in our power), then, like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light, as a thing which has its whole value in itself. " - Immanuel Kant, from his Metaphysics of Morals.

"[With balancing of job complexes] we would not have a division between those who overwhelmingly monopolize empowering, fulfilling and engaging tasks and those who are overwhelmingly saddled with rote, obedient, and dangerous tasks. For reasons of equity and especially to create the conditions of democratic participation and self-management, balanced job complexes would ensure that when we each participate in our workplace and industry decision-making, we have been comparably prepared by our work with confidence, skills, and knowledge to do so."
- Michael Albert, from Parecon: Life After Capitalism.