— Riyo Chuchi (Season One, Episode 15, “Trespass”) Riyo Chuchi is a minor character who nevertheless gets one of the very best lines in all of Star Wars. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV, “We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, “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. 19 “In case of doubt, attack.”. “As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Not to have tried is the true failure.” ~ George Edward Woodberry, “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness” ~ Robert Muller, “What kind of peace do we seek? I wish I could show you When you are lonely or in darkness, The Astonishing Light Of your own Being!”, “In a time of unprecedented challenge and evolutionary transition we must heal the wounds of the past, engage fully in the transformation of present conditions, and create a future of unparalleled dignity and beauty for all beings and for all life on Earth.” ~James O’Dea, “Each of the great social achievements of recent decades has come about not because of government proclamations, but because people organized, made demands, and made it good politics for governments to respond. “Decide to network. ”, “Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. Life is a song, sing it. That makes it hard to plan the day.” ~ E.B. “The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. A revolution requires not only ammunition, but also weapons and men willing to use them and willing to be slain in the battle. So it goes. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it. “When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.” Sun Tzu. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. Party, Gun, Political. We must be soldiers of peace who can do more than preach to the choir. As the saying goes, there are no good guys or bad guys in a war, only winners and loser. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs. They shared.”, “You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. Mobilize against the war . We’re not just residents on this planet, we’re citizens. The flip-flopping between domestic drama and war drama didn’t sit well with me — I much preferred the often Austen-esque domestic sections and was bored to tears by war. Too many think it is unreal. A collection of inspirational wisdom, sayings and quotes on the subject of war and peace.. War is allowed to exist because in general, people allow themselves to be controlled, and fear standing up to self-serving rulers. In this post, you will find 55+ Anti-War Slogans & Sayings. Whoever wants to win a war has to stop it right away. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ~ John Muir. Joe Galloway in We Were Soldiers. We’re citizens. ” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. “One day the sun admitted I am just a shadow. Quotes. Anti-War Slogans . He who controls the present controls the past.”. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.” ~Dalai Lama, “Security is mostly superstition. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live–men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization–because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness’ sake.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” ~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. For this reason, we’ve created the following selection of some of the greatest and most powerful military quotes of all time. Anything war can do, peace can do better. Indeed, 'lesser evil' is part of the essential tactical rhetoric of today's Left, and has been deployed to excuse or overlook the sins of liberal Democrats, from President Clinton's bombing of Sudan to Madeleine Albright's veto of an international rescue for Rwanda when she was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Life is a struggle, accept it. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. Life is a beauty, admire it. Always avoid violence. War can be devastating, and it can wreak havoc on entire societies for decades and generations. ― Stephen King. Patience Time Powerful. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, Yesterday is gone and its tale told. There's Paul Wolfowitz. Liam: Stop the anuke-ite. What the president should have done, in the unlikely event that he wanted the support of America's peace-mongers, was to describe a confrontation with Saddam as the 'lesser evil.' Military quotes to make you strong. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. For I have seen too much hate. Americans living during the Revolutionary War were no exception to the matter and they too held a decided view on tyranny. Before, I had avoided them like the plague, especially because of what they said about General Sharon and about Nicaragua. Not one not ten not ten thousand not a million not ten millions not a hundred millions but a billion two billions of us all the people of the world we will have the slogans and we will have the hymns and we will have the guns and we will use them and we will live. 17 “No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.”. “War is too important to be left to the generals.”- Georges Clémenceau Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States …”, “Well, I know," she said. War is its crime. 18. We still have the power, we just have to organize groups that first focus on the Members of Congress, that’s the pivot institution that has the power to leverage turning this country around. Don't you feel a little reproach to your so called high principle anti-war policy? Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.” ~ Etty Hillesum, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Don’t drink at the water’s edge, throw yourself in. Either war is obsolete or men are. Japanese has 14 words for beauty. ~ John F. Kennedy, “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” Make no mistake of it we will live. “Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. Islam has 99 names for God. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.” ~Martin Luther King Jr. We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth, And when we come to it To the day of peacemaking When we release our fingers From fists of hostility And allow the pure air to cool our palms, When we come to it When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate And faces sooted with scorn and scrubbed clean When battlefields and coliseum No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters Up with the bruised and bloody grass To lie in identical plots in foreign soil, When the rapacious storming of the churches The screaming racket in the temples have ceased When the pennants are waving gaily When the banners of the world tremble Stoutly in the good, clean breeze, When we come to it When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders And children dress their dolls in flags of truce When land mines of death have been removed And the aged can walk into evenings of peace When religious ritual is not perfumed By the incense of burning flesh And childhood dreams are not kicked awake By nightmares of abuse, When we come to it Then we will confess that not the Pyramids With their stones set in mysterious perfection Nor the Gardens of Babylon Hanging as eternal beauty In our collective memory Not the Grand Canyon Kindled into delicious color By Western sunsets, Nor the Danube, flowing its blue soul into Europe Not the sacred peak of Mount Fuji Stretching to the Rising Sun Neither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who, without favor, Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shores These are not the only wonders of the world, When we come to it We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade and the dagger Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace We, this people on this mote of matter In whose mouths abide cankerous words Which challenge our very existence Yet out of those same mouths Come songs of such exquisite sweetness That the heart falters in its labor And the body is quieted into awe, We, this people, on this small and drifting planet Whose hands can strike with such abandon That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness That the haughty neck is happy to bow And the proud back is glad to bend Out of such chaos, of such contradiction We learn that we are neither devils nor divines, When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every woman Can live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” ~ George Bernard Shaw, “I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men and women, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.” ~T. When people sign the declaration of peace at WorldBeyondWar.org they have the opportunity to type in a brief statement in their own words. Scott: Stop the war. Weimar-style conservatism can easily mutate into National Socialism. Avoiding the danger of life is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.” ~Helen Keller, “It is in the nature of revolution, the overturning of an existing order, that at its inception a very small number of people are involved. It is the political will of the people that makes and sustains the political will of governments.” ~James Grant, former Executive Director of UNICEF, “I was once asked why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe –the open sesame to every soul.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.”, “If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it, but let them also wonder occasionally whether this is not an illusion due to security, too much money and a simple ignorance of the way in which things actually happen.”, “You can walk around this culture now, as a proud supporter of the so called anti-war movement and it's made up of a lot of people I used to know … I'd like for them to be asked more often than they are, if your advice had been taken over the last 15 or so years; Slobodan Milosevic would still be the dictator of not just Serbia but also of a cleansed and ruined Bosnia and Kosovo. LINK/CITE. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent - or even take the side of the fascists. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Victor Frankl, “Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ” I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land. One little person giving all of her time to peace makes news. There are always two sides to a coin. “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. Wisdom Quotes about War and Peace . It was a time when the left was mostly taking the conservative, status quo position - leave the Balkans alone, leave Milosevic alone, do nothing. We must continue to speak for peace and to live the way of peace; to inspire others, we must continue to think of peace and know that peace is possible. I was signing petitions in favour of action in Bosnia, and I would look down the list of names and I kept finding, there's Richard Perle. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. Life is an adventure, dare it. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger." It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.” ~ Martin Luther King, “To replace the old paradigm of war with a new paradigm of waging peace, we must be pioneers who can push the boundaries of human understanding. In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.”, “I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. That is, the ethical value of one's actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” ~ Diane Ackerman, Joy does not simply happen to us. Never, ‘for the sake of peace and quiet,’ deny your own … In an intellectual revolution there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend their reputations and careers in spreading the idea through deeds as well as words.” ~Jude Wanniski, “We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth, we’re the crew. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers.” ~ Malala Yousafzai (17 year-old Noble Peace Laureate) “Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children . Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers.” ~ Malala Yousafzai (17 year-old Noble Peace Laureate), “Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. Then he becomes your partner.” ~ Nelson Mandela, “If you want to end the war then Instead of sending guns, send books. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate, In fact violence merely increases hate. “We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. I haven't seen an anti-war meeting all this year at which you could even guess at the existence of the Iraqi and Kurdish opposition to Saddam, an opposition that was fighting for 'regime change' when both Republicans and Democrats were fawning over Baghdad as a profitable client and geopolitical ally. You are a free, immensely powerful source of life and goodness. It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. A People’s Movement to End All War. “You never change anything by fighting the existing. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. 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