I believe without a shadow of doubt that science and peace will finally triumph over ignorance and war, and that the nations of the Earth will ultimately agree not to destroy, but to build up - Louis Pasteur
I am searching for that which every man seeks -- peace and rest -
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder - Albert Einstein
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work for it - Eleanor Roosevelt
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be, Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle flags were furled, In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the World - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Do not repeat the slogan that there will never be peace on Earth. For if you do, you will contribute to making peace impossible. Believe that peace is possible, inevitable, do something for it and it will become a reality - Robert Muller
Beside the garden walls, we walk in haunts of ancient peace - Van Morrison
After a modern age of intellectual specialization and a postmodern age of philosophical hesitation, a new breed of up-and-coming thinkers is ready to take their turn at understanding the affairs of our troubled world. Hailing from various disciplines and backgrounds, what makes these eclectic twenty-first-century lovers of wisdom so unique is their conviction that deeper and higher knowledge about the nature of life and the workings of human evolution is important, can make a difference, and, rightly applied, may even deliver us into a new world characterized by a little more Plato, as one book recently put it, and a little less Prozac - http://www.wie.org/j22/kimura.asp?ecp=WIE-News-0906
Global defence spending is up 8% per year and yet it
Some call it The Shift, others call it Blessed Unrest, and still others talk of a "civilian surge" - the idea that around the world people who have hugely different access to opportunities and wealth nonetheless inhabit an increasingly common environment in which mobile and other emerging technologies can tell protestors and poor farmers and street kids about how various aspects of their life could be improved.