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The major challenges facing humanity today are global – climate change, accessible fresh water, ever decreasing bio-diversity and over population. These problems call for global solutions and these solutions will require co-operation on a global scale unparalleled in history. Peace is the essential prerequisite to create the environment to achieve the levels of co-operation necessary.
steve killelea— Peace and Sustainability: Cornerstones to survival in the 21st century (2007)
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
william collins— William Collins, Eclogue II, Hassan, line 68.
...Peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the Peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete.
john f. kennedy
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of Peace.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms 37:11.
What can one do with the past? Forgive it. Let it enter into you in Peace.
Les(lie Allan) Murray— 1968 The Nice and the Good.
Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep Peace with the irresistible march of events.
Napoleon I— Said to Alexander I of Russia, 2 February 1808.
Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of Peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.
— 1591Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 39.
Sir Henry Wotton?was also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say,'it was anemployment forhisidletime?a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of Peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.'
Izaak Walton— 1653 The Compleat Angler, pt.1, ch.1.
Life, if we would mark it, is made up of thousands of suggestions from some unseen quarter, prompting us to duty; starting some thought of what is wise and right and just and good; inclining us to thoughtfulness, to meditation, to prayer; making the soul dissatisfied with its present course, and drawing it along in the path of duty, benevolence, and Peace.
albert barnes— P. 318. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good Peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
sitting bull— Recorded by Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.
I am at Peace with God; my conflict is with man.
charlie chaplin— Monsieur Verdoux (1947). Chaplin's answer as a Verdoux that is to be guillotined and receives a visit from a priest who tell him 'I've come to ask you to make your peace with God'. "Comedy Quotes from the Movies" (2001), Larry Langman, Paul Gold, Ed. McFarland, p. 274
All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, — every war; every Peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, — all change, — all permanence, — the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, — all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit.
rufus choate— "The Power of a State Developed by Mental Culture", an address to the Mercantile Library Association (18 November 1844), published in The Works of Rufus Choate : Memoir, Lectures and Addresses (1862), edited by Samuel Gilman Brown.
A retired physicist reading the Encyclopedia Britannica can do just so much toward securing world Peace.
brian hayes— Chapter 5, Statistics Of Deadly Quarrels, p. 101 (On: Lewis Fry Richardson)
If there is to be Peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
john l. lewis— "Labor and the Nation" speech in Washington, D.C. (September 3, 1937)
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at Peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.
George Steiner— Ch. 7 (p. 229)
The things you hear now about European unemployment -- that there are structural problems, that real wages have failed to adjust, that there are inflationary fears -- are the same things that were said during the early 1930. It is well established that government spending began to pull Germany out of its slump in 1935. There is no known reason why spending for Peace can't do as well at getting the economy going as spending for war.
lawrence summers— David Warsh (April 27, 1986) "It Did Happen Here, Too", Boston Globe, p. A1.
We know perfectly well that neither love nor Peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
andrei tarkovsky— p. 219 (Sculpting in Time (1986))
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and Peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
orson welles— As the character Harry Lime in the film The Third Man (1949)
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his Peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.
mark twain— Ch. 13. (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889))
A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal Peace and happiness.
gloria estefan— www.beautyblabber.com (July 31, 2007)
A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no Peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.
Margaret Mead— p.131 (1973 edition)
These people are making a choice for Peace and that means that the time is coming in which this insurgency will have no foothold, in which it will be defeated, defeated by Iraqis and in which we can fully come home.
condoleezza rice— Interview on ABC Good Morning America, December 16, 2005
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find Peace .
— Albert Schweitzer, in Kulturphilosophie (1923), translated as Philosophy of Civilisation (1949).
During these four years the arms race has exacerbated the threat to Peace, heightening the anxieties of peoples and imposing heavier burdens on each nation at the expense of its economic and social development.
— Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan. The Second Special Session on Disarmament met June 7 to July 9, 1982. Quoted in Disarmament or Delusion?, Awake! magazine, January 8, 1983.
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but Peace.
— Oscar Wilde (1895) The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Be careful above all things not to let go of the atomic weapon until you are sure, and more than sure, that other means of preserving Peace are in your hands.
— Winston Churchill Final Speech to US Congress[ ]
We want no war of conquest…. War should never be entered upon until every agency of Peace has failed.
william mckinley— Inaugural Address. Washington, March 4, 1897. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.
Yoga is the unifying art of transforming dharma into action, be it through inspired thought , properly nurtuting our children, a painting , a kindness or an act of Peace that forever moves humanity forward.
— Micheline Berry, in “The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom], p.24
In Peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.
— Variant translation: In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
— Book 1, Ch. 87
