“But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For these pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, "Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Centurion Sermon (Sonnet 1005)
Peace is an act of ceasefire,
Peace is an act of disarmament.
If you don't get this simple fact,
You need lessons on common sense.
Beer is no bravery,
Guns ain't no gallantry,
Dump your bazookas in museum,
Smell the roses with some coffee.
Dump your scripture, pick up a sport,
You'll learn a lot about honor and camaraderie.
Dump your constitution, pick up gardening,
You'll learn plenty about preserving life 'n liberty.
Nationalism is the greatest threat to peace.
Fundamentalism is the greatest threat to harmony.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Beer is no bravery,
Guns ain't no gallantry,
Dump your bazookas in museum,
Smell the roses with some coffee.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Peace is not a cause,
Peace is a pause -
Pause in hate and greed,
Pause in gain and loss.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“You don't conquer heart by acting on assumption,
You don't conquer division by acting on ideology.
You don't conquer hate by means of intellectualism,
You don't conquer war by deploying more military.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“Visvavictor Sonnet
I am not a poet,
I am a paradigm.
I am no religionist,
But the source divine.
More than a scientist,
I'm a compass to science.
I am not a philosopher,
But a purposeful alliance.
I am not some legal giant,
But a valley of lawless order.
Transcending Sieg Heil and Star Spangled Banner,
I am the Visva (world), I am the Victor.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“It's a new world we gotta build -
Founded on love, tempered by reason.
If we must keep the borders,
let's keep them as external necessity,
not as internal prison.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Democracy is people-approved dictatorship.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Some make bombs for domination,
Some make bombs for survival.
Either way someone pushes a button,
Innocents wind up dead as collateral.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Love is a lamp,
That the sane cannot light.
Peace is poetry,
That the sober cannot write.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans