“I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.” PeopleTryingTwoPeacePresidentVisionRolesConscienceBasesProsperityTwo ThingsConsidering Author:Boris Trajkovski
“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.” WorldFirstsRunningPeaceChristCommunityForgetTeacherTroubleTeachingLaborUniversalBasesNeighborObligationFollowersThyselfOur CommunityLove Thy NeighborWorld Love Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern threats, built on regional and global nonaligned bases. Only then can we ensure peace and tranquility in the world.” WorldShouldGovernmentPeaceGoalDealsCommonModernSecurityDevelopmentEqualBuiltBasesThreatTranquilityAdequatePeace And TranquilityCommon Goal Author:Vladimir Putin
“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.” FormJoyPeaceUnderstandingDifferencesEmotionalIntellectualBasesThreatEqualityBridgesPsychicsUbuntu Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.” IfsThinkingMenWarEnoughMightPeaceNumbersRocksMilitaryMountainBasesStormConsensusLarge NumbersDiscworldCitadels Author:Terry Pratchett
“One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.” LoveFeelingsSpiritualPeaceCompassionKindnessEssenceBasesInner PeaceBuddhistCompassionateBrotherhoodSisterhoodLove And Compassion Author:Dalai Lama
“We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.” MenWorldInspirationalNeedsGivingShouldPhilosophyTogetherFormValuesHumanityCultureNationsPeaceReligiousUnitedCompassionMankindMaterialsGoodnessEthicsMen And WomenUniversalBasesInstitutionsTradeCaringToleranceDimensionsWorking TogetherLife ExperienceHumankindDogmaSolidarityUnited NationsGoodwillUbuntuMeaning LifeExtended FamilyValue Of Love Author:Wangari Maathai
“The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.” MenWorldBelieveRealWould BeLyingI BelievePeaceVirtueTeachingTaughtTruth IsBasesHarmWickedGovernorsFalsehoodAlways BelieveUbuntu Book:The Prospects of Industrial Civilization Source: The Prospects of Industrial Civilization