“Peace is sweet, my lady… but on what terms? It is no good hammering your sword into a plowshare if you must forge it again on the morrow.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“Whether we wish it or not, we may soon have to make a clear choice between the special nation to which we pledge our allegiance and the broad humanity of which we are born a part. This choice is implicit in the world to come. We have a little time in which we can make the choice intelligently. Failing that, the choice will be made for us in the confusion of war, from which the world will emerge unified--the unity of total desolation.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Peace is not something to be kept, like a pet monkey; peace is the by-product of responsible government.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Many excellent sites have been proposed as headquarters for the United Nations, but the location we like best is the Black Hills of South Dakota. Staunch advocacy of this site appears from time to time in the appendix of the Congressional Record, and we have been following it, first with interest, lately with enthusiasm. Unquestionably, the seat of the new world league should be Dinosaur Park, near Rapid City, South Dakota, in the Black Hills, for in Dinosaur Park stand the cement figures, full size, of the Big Five of Long Ago--Tyrannosaurus rex (35 feet long, 16 feet high), Triceratops (27 by 11), Brontosaurus (90 feet long, weight 40 tons), and a couple of other plug-uglies of the period, all of them in combative attitudes astride a well-worn path. Much can be said for such a bizarre setting. Here let the new halls be built, so that earnest statesmen, glancing up from their secret instructions from the home office, may gaze out upon the prehistoric sovereigns who kept on fighting one another until they perished from the earth.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“Peace was what people were groping for, and when Americans grope for something they turn naturally to display advertising and grope all over the place.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“The presence of Fascism anywhere constitutes a threat to peace, and you do not need to debate it.”
Source: The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
“We are unequivocally valued in the sight of God as men, women, and children – every culture, every skin colour, every demographic, rich and poor, every individual preference. That is the starting point. Not the endpoint. The beginning of creating a harmonious and flourishing world is to start from the basis of equal value. One world. One people. Different expressions. All loved. All valued.”
Source: Writing: A Spiritual Voice
“Life is to be observed, and questioned each day for what it provides, and has to provide that may help broaden our horizon of thoughts.”
Source: DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?
“Neither there is anyone who can defeat me nor anyone whom I can defeat; because competition is not what I seek.”
“Ben Carson: I guess God had something to do with this.
Craig: I guess God had everything to do with it.”
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story