Sunday Food for Thought: Peace

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
- Maria Montessori

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mahatma Gandhi

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
- Martin Luther King Jr

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson

The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are -- as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy.
- Unknown

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
- A. J. Muste