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“I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.”

“It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.”

Form Peace Cases Hardest

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.”

War Wanted Peace Cases Five Development Fascinating Arrested

Author:Peter Ustinov

“I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been the case that citizenry -- women and men -- can make progress when it is not possible for the officials to be able to meet at that moment in time.”

Men Feels Moments Able Spiritual Political Peace Cases Progress Duty Men And Women Tables Officials That Moment Moments In Time Citizenry

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”

Should War States House Peace Cases Citizens Soldier Conservative Socialism Greek Citizenship Disarming Free State

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.”

Nations Peace Cases Doubt Strength Tyrants Doubted Robbers Fleas

Book:A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778

Source: A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778

“He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.”

Years Long Reason Age Time Passion Peace Cases Poet Aging Fifty Fourth Treaties Peace Treaties Fourth Year

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg