Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
I'd rather teach peace.
The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.
Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.