“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” MeanCharacterHandsPoliticalValuesPeaceSidesCommunityFreedomPowerfulMoralPowerVirtueDemocracyHonestyIntegrityConflictEthicsInequalityPowerlessWashingPowerlessnessNeutralityPedagogyPedagogy Of The OppressedPraxisCommunity Action Book:The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation
“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.” MeanWarUseUsedPeaceViolenceDirtyWagesBegetsDegradingDirty Business Author:A. J. Muste
“We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.” PeopleWorldWayMeanSelfEnoughWholeHandsFoundCausesPeaceFindingsLosingInner PeaceStableSelf CenteredFinding Inner Peace Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.” WorldLoveTryingMeanHumanityPeaceReligiousUniversalBrotherhoodBahaBaha I Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.” HumansMeanWarBigsTodayPeaceProcessRaceTechnologyFitStructureHuman RaceCarelessPoisoningDeteriorationLunacy Author:Max Born
“The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.” IfsWorldMeanCountryWholeEarthOrderPeaceNaturalWealthMorningAdventureProductsBedComfortableResourcesEconomicsClimateVariousLondonSecureTeaEnterpriseQuartersTelephonesNatural ResourcesPassportsFormalitySipping Author:John Maynard Keynes
“Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.” WayMeanNationsPeacePiecesAchievePeaceful Author:Richard M. Nixon