Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
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Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen.
Since the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920, the refugees and the stateless have attached themselves like a curse to all the newly established states on earth which were created in the image of the nation-state.
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. “Yes,” he replied. “The path of sympathy.”
A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
