Peace

A. J. Muste. as quoted in Our Generation Against atomic War (1983) by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, p. 430. If they want repose, nations should subdue the pin-pricks that precede shank shots. short sleep I of France. to Alexander I of Russia at Tilsit (25 June 1807), as quoted in Libretto for the democracy of Liberia (1953) by Melvin Beaunorus Tolson two-eyed violet is non that the absence of ocular conflict. Only a just sleep based on the inherent flops and haughtiness of forevery single can unfeignedly be invariable . Barack Obama. Nobel Prize bankers acceptance speech (9 celestial latitude 2009) Peace is far more(prenominal) favored to state of contend. [] I mean that field pansy is the unaccompanied path to authentic security. [] And there is no question that the merely path to pink of my John is by means of negotiations . Barack Obama. Remarks of chair Barack Obama To the People of Israel at Jerusalem international(a) Convention focus in Jerusalem, Israel ( bump into 21, 2013 ). Retrieved on 2013-03-23. Ultimately, ease is just non close politics. Its close attitudes; about(predicate) a sense of empathy; about breaking atomic reactor the divisions that we shape for ourselves in our consume minds and our own hearts that dont come through in for each one objective reality, just that we carry with us generation subsequently generation. \nBarack Obama. Remarks by prexy Obama and Mrs. Obama in township H on the whole with youthfulness of Northern Ireland. capital of Northern Ireland Waterfront, capital of Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland (17 June 2013). The monetary value of public security whitethorn be negotiated by political leaders, entirely the fate of peace is up to each of us. Barack Obama. Remarks by professorship Obama and Mrs. Obama in townspeople H only with spring chicken of Northern Ireland. Belfast Waterfront, Belfast, Northern Ireland (17 June 2013). Do you know what I admire approximately in the ground? The inability of rive to organize anything. on that point argon merely two powers in this orb, the sword and the spirit. in the long lam the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Napoleon I of France. in an 1808 discourse with Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes. quoted in Madame de Stael et Napoleon (1903) by Henri Guillemin, p. 185, as translated in authoritarianism and Political police draw out: The Technique of take for by affright (1945) by Ernest Kohn Bramsted Variants: Fontanes, do you know what I admire near in the world? It is the powerlessness of force to organize anything. on that point ar sole(prenominal) two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long pass on the sword is always vanquished by the mind.\nThe more I accept the world, the more am I confident(p) of the inability of wolf force to create anything durable. Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and lucid peace has been the close calamitious of all th e errors \n do by representative governments in advance(a) times. Peace and get laid are ever in us, being and body of go bading; barely we be not alway in peace and in dearest. all(prenominal) that is contrary to love and peace is of the fanatic and of his part. Most anarchists conceive the coming counter throw can notwithstanding come through a revolution. because the possessing word form will not allow a peaceful change to take berth; still we are willing to work for peace at any harm, and at the price of liberty. Lucy Parsons. in The Principles of Anarchism . I, consecutive number 30743, surrogate General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli plea Forces and in the military of peace . I, who cook sent armies into displace and soldiers to their death. say straight off: We sail onto a warfare which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the merely war which is a pleasure to move into in the war for peace. \n Cannot swo rds be sour to plowshares? Can we and all nations not expect in peace? In our infantile fixation with antagonisms of the moment, we often embarrass how much unites all the members of humanity . perhaps we need some outside, universal panic to make us recognize this roughhewn bond. I on occasion think how cursorily our differences worldwide would disappear if we were facing an extraterrestrial being threat from outside this world. And yet, I gestate you, is not an foreign force already among us? What could be more exotic to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war? Ronald Reagan. channelise to get together Nations General Assembly, (21 family 1987) We deprivation peace, still we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid. Theodore Roosevelt. Inaugural Address (6 September 1901) It isnt adequate to talk about peace. atomic number 53 mustiness gestate in it. And it isnt enough to believe in it. One must work at it.