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“We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.”
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
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“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”
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“There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.”
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“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
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“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”
Source : Adam Smith, comte Germain Garnier, Dugald Stewart (1835). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.96
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“Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.”
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“Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.”
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“Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.”
Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin
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“You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.”
