I walked to the window and ripped open the blackout blinds. Outside the sun was climbing into the sky. The war in Europe had ended. A Soldier's Story (1951)
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead. Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1992)
We have men of science; too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.