This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Aggression | Love | Mankind | Method | Need | Oppression | Retaliation | Revenge | Time |
Paul Wilhelm von Keppler, Bishop of the Diocese of Rottenburg
Joy is a constituent of life, a necessity of life; it is an element of life’s value and life’s power. As every man has need of joy, so too, every man has a right to joy… It is a condition of religious living.
Joy | Life | Life | Man | Necessity | Need | Power | Right | Value |
What the schools can teach is what we value as a community… love, empathy, caring, cooperation, commitment to others, spiritual and ethical sensitivity, respect for difference, self-discipline, tolerance and honesty.
Commitment | Cooperation | Discipline | Empathy | Honesty | Love | Respect | Self | Teach | Respect | Value |
Ronald Lewin, fully George Ronald Lewin
The practical value of intelligence depends on the attitude of mind of its recipients.
Intelligence | Mind | Value |
William McGill, fully James McGill
The value of consistent prayer is not that he will hear us… but that we will finally hear Him.
The stock of ideas which mankind has to work with is very limited, like the alphabet, can at best have an air of freshness given it by new arrangements and combinations, or by application to new times and circumstances.
Circumstances | Ideas | Mankind | Work |
Richard Niebuhr, fully Helmut Richard Niebuhr
We know tradition as a living social process constantly changing, constantly in need of criticism, but constant also as the continuing memory, value system and habit structure of a society.
Criticism | Habit | Memory | Need | Society | System | Tradition | Value |
Ernest Renan, aka Joseph Ernest Renan
The highest goal of mankind is the liberty of the individual.
Individual | Liberty | Mankind |
All mankind is divided into three classes – the immovable, the movable, and those who move.
Mankind |
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
The wars of mankind are like children’s fights - all meaningless, pitiless and contemptible.