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World Views
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George Melton
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is themeasure.
Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
First keep the peace within yourself, then you canalso bring peace to others. -
Mahatma Gandhi (attributed)
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength,Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which ma achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), The Third Man, 1949
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think ofcontinuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
George Hyman Rickover
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
"Strength to Love"
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.