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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)
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of Peace.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms 37:11.
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.
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 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 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)
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[ ]
Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joyand treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!
Robert Burns— 1791 'Ae Fond Kiss', stanza 5.
As I walk throughThis wicked worldSearchin' for light in the darkness of insanity,I ask myselfIs all hope lost?Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?And each time I feel like this inside,Theres one thing I wanna know:What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?
nick lowe— "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" on The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz (1974); the song later became a hit as sung by Elvis Costello. (YouTube video - YouTube video)
As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?
elvis costello— Though Costello's cover became a hit, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding", was actually written by Nick Lowe.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
thomas jefferson— Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1801).
Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.
— Golda Meir, 1957[ ]
Great Peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms119:165.
Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and darka shining space With the grave's narrowness, though not its Peace.
— 1938 'Sick Love'.
Once have a priest for enemy, good byeTo Peace.
sarah adams— Vivia Perpetua, Act iii. Sc. ii.
We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for Peace and justice.
dorothy day— "Month of the Dead," Catholic Worker (November 1959)
Be. If I could be Jesus for just a day and have it my way, if ICould be perfect, like the light — Jesus for a night and haveIt my way — if I could beAtop my mountain a phenomenon — when I walk on water I amComplete, at Peace and I'd make it so you'd be just like me.
macy gray— "Jesus For A Day" (co-written with Jeremy Ruzumna, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Bobby Ross Avila, Issiah J. Avila)
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in Peace and friendship.
black kettle— p. 101 (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970))
The cycle of violence will continue far into the new millennium. Hopes for Peace will probably not be realized, because the great that shape the international system fear each other and compete for power as a result. Indeed, their ultimate aim is to gain a position of dominant power over others, because having dominant power is the best means to ensure one's own survival.
john j. mearsheimer— Preface, p. xi
To attain inner Peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life — bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live them — then, and only then, can you begin to find inner Peace.
peace pilgrim— p. 95 (1994 edition)
Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy — but only if your soul is at Peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
wilfrid sheed— "Now That Men Can Cry...," p. 299
I know that you are a Black Stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen Allâh’s Messenger – Peace and blessings of Allâh be upon him – kiss you, I would never have kissed you.
umar—
Who thinks that fortune cannot change her mind, Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind. And who stands safest? Tell me, is it he That spreads and swells in puff'd prosperity, Or bless'd with little, whose preventing care In Peace provides fit arms against a war?
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace, Satire II, line 123.
Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the Peace and public order.
günter brus— P. 14 (Cit.after LockerWiener Aktionismus.Der zertrümmerte Spiegel.Wien1960-1971,op.cit.,p.299.)
At present the Peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
benjamin disraeli— Letter to Mrs. Sarah Brydges Willyams (17 October 1863).
“You’re actually a soldier,” he said to me, “and you go along with this foolishness?” “I didn’t ask to be a soldier. And I can’t imagine a Peace as foolish as this war we’re in.”
joe haldeman— p. 227 (Forever Peace (1997))
Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world Peace and world law.
john f. kennedy— First State of the Union Address (30 January 1961)
The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that Peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead.
Margaret Mead— Margaret Mead (1961) "Are Shelters the Answer?", The New York Times Magazine (26 November 1961), p. 125.
