“Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.” IfsKnowsMindHumansIdeasWarSelfBodyDesireWishHuman BeingsInspireMaterialsHabitConflictNegativeUltimateFellowsStriveGreedSeekingPossessionYour BodyGods WillOccasionsMotiveSensibleCastingFinding PeaceNegative ThoughtsEliminatingInspire OthersMaterial PossessionsPeace WithinGlorificationSelf Glorification Author:Peace Pilgrim
“It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.” MenTurnsForceEconomicConflictFoundationGreedEnvySystematicCultivationSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.” WorldWayMeanWarSeemsMovingCertainInterestWealthAcceptingDemocracyImpossibleConflictGreedNationalismNeutralityMoving InElitismUndesirableInternationalism Book:Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice Source: Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
“Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.” WorldYearsFirstsAgePoliticsEmotionClassStruggleEconomyCenturyHorrorConflictMassTradeUnionsGreedEnvyPassingPassingsRadicalLiberalismFiftyMutualOur World20th CenturyCavesDisputesHostilityRespectableClass StruggleTrade UnionsPseudonymsLack Of Control Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in the market is enforced by contract and regulation and law, because morality is understood to be in conflict with the motive force of greed and accumulation.” ThinkingLawValuesForceMoralParticularMoralityConflictUnderstoodCapitalismGreedInevitableMotiveContractsCategoriesRegulationAccumulation Author:Michael Pollan
“I would that the healing power of Christ might spread over the earth and be diffused through our society and into our homes, that it might cure men's hearts of the evil and adverse elements of greed and hate and conflict. I believe it could happen. I believe it must happen. If the lamb is to lie down with the lion, then peace must overcome conflict, healing must mend injury.” IfsMenBelieveHeartHomeMightHappensEarthLyingHateEvilI BelieveChristHealingConflictElementsOvercomingGreedSpreadCuresInjuryOur SocietyLionsLambsAdverse Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.” ThinkingKindMeanWarSecurityConflictAnxietyShotsHatredGreedWrestlingNonviolenceCivilityMediation Author:Cornel West
“Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.” NeedsPoliticalSocialConflictRootsGreedTension Author:Satish Kumar
“Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.” HumansHas BeensSpiritLostSocialJusticeIgnoranceConflictTransformationProfoundGreedCrueltyResolutionQuestsSolidarityExploringHuman SpiritReconciliationShatteredMediationWin WinSocial Transformation Author:Hizkias Assefa