| Power to the peaceful.
- Spearhead
We say we want peace, but nobody wants to change their own
mind.
- Michael Franti and Spearhead, Yell
Fire
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. (No hay camino
para la paz, la paz es el camino.)
- Mahatma Gandhi
El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz. (Respect for
the rights of others is peace.)
- Benito
Juárez
Un area de conflictos es un area de oportunidades para cambiar.
(An area of conflict is an opportunity for change).
- Hugo Antonio Santiago, Oaxaca
Every moment of the day provides an opportunity to create the
conditions for Peace. For Peacemaking is not that special activity
undertaken only in those moments of intense and violent conflict.
Indeed, when we reach such moments, that is a clear indication
that we have not been doing our daily jobs as Peacemakers.
- Harrison Owen, Many
Roads to Peace
First examine our attitude towards peace itself. Too many of
us think it is impossible. Too many think it is unreal. But
that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion
that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are
gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that
view. Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved
by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human
destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have
often solved the seemingly unsolvable, and we believe they can
do it again. I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept
of universal peace and good will of which some fantasies and
fanatics dream. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams
but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making
that our only and immediate goal. Let us focus instead on a
more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden
revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human
institutions -- on a series of concrete actions and effective
agreements which are in the interest of all concerned. There
is no single, simple key to this peace; no grand or magic formula
to be adopted by one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the
product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic,
not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation.
For peace is a process, a way of solving problems.
- John F. Kennedy, American
University Address
According to mythologist Michael Meade, real warriors are those
who are experts at avoiding violence. They know how to prevent
the escalation of conflict. They're skilled at resolving problems
before they explode. In fact, Meade says, war breaks out only
when there are no authentic warriors involved in the situation.
- Rob Brezsny, Free
Will Astrology
Nonviolence does't always work -- but violence never does.
- Madge Micheels-Cyrus
The war on terror is a war on peace.
- Michael Franti and Spearhead, Yell
Fire
Efforts undertaken in the mode of 'Top Down/Command and Control'
may have immediate impact, even immediate positive impact (people
stop shooting each other), but the longer term effect is not
as promising. The reason is a simple. The mode of operation
is the very antithesis of Peace. The system addressed (company,
county, country, region) is usually not appreciated in its full,
complex diversity. Chaos, confusion and conflict are eliminated
if possible, rather than honored for the gifts they give, and
then invited to integrate into the larger fabric. And most destructive,
and therefore least effective, is the presumption that those
who undertake the project actually know what they are doing,
and therefore feel at liberty to impose their authority, their
design, their control.
- Harrison Owen, Many
Roads to Peace
Given the room and the freedom to move, the complex adaptive
system will do what it is very good at ... create wholeness,
health and harmony. We call that Peace.
- Harrison Owen, A Strategy for Peace
Peace be with you
- Genesis
A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
- William Shakespeare
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