"The whole world faces a momentous choice. Either our frenzy of desperation will lead to destruction, or our loyalty to truth, to God and to our fellow man [sic] will enable us to perform the patient, heroic task of building a world that will eventually thrive in unity, order and peace."    - Thomas Merton ; Peace in the Post-Christian Era

"We live in that final time that offers humans the clearest choice in history: the kingdom or the holocaust."    - James W. Douglass ; Lightning East to West: Jesus, Gandhi, and the Nuclear Age

"To allow governments to pour more and more billions into weapons that almost immediately become obsolete, thereby necessitating more billions for new and bigger weapons, is on e father most colossal injustices in the long history of man. While we are doing this, two-thirds of the world is starving, or living in conditions of unparalleled and subhuman destitution."    - Thomas Merton ; Peace in the Post-Christian Era

"Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done."    - Thomas Merton ; Chant to be Used in Processions around a Site with Furnaces