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Only
in time of fear is government thrown back to
its primitive and sole function of self-defense
and the many interests of which it is the guardian
become subordinate to that.
-- Jane
Addams |
Better
beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear
-- Aesop
"There
is no trust more sacred than the one the
world holds with children. There is no duty
more important than ensuring that their
rights are respected, that their welfare
is protected, that their lives are free
from fear and want and that they can grow
up in peace."
-- Kofi
Annan
"...women
themselves have the right to live in dignity,
in freedom from want and freedom from fear."
-- Kofi
Annan
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"No
passion so effectually robs the mind of all its
powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
-- Edmund Burke
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Nuclear
weapons play on our deepest fears and pander
to our darkest instincts. They corrode our sense
of humanity, numb our capacity for moral outrage,
and make thinkable the unimaginable. They prey
on democracies and totalitarian societies alike,
shrinking the norms of civilized behavior and
dimming the prospects for escaping the savagery
so powerfully imprinted on our genetic code.
-- General
Lee Butler, head of US Strategic Nuclear
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We
discovered that peace at any price is no peace at
all. We discovered that life at any price has no
value whatever; that life is nothing without the
privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which
make it worth living, and also worth giving. And
we also discovered that there is something more
hideous, more atrocious than war or than death;
and that is to live in fear.
-- Eve Curie, French author
Think
first of the action that is right to take, think
later about coping with one's fears.
-- Barbara
Deming |
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"Peace
does not fare well where poverty and deprivation
reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance
and a lack of education and information. Repression,
injustice and exploitation are inimical with
peace. Peace is gravely threatened by inter-group
fear and envy and by the unleashing of unrealistic
expectations. Racial, class and religious intolerance
and prejudice are its mortal enemies."
-- Frederik
W. de Klerk |
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“While
we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase
to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion
as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we
should awaken and strengthen the control of
the conscience.”
-- Dorothea
Dix |
'Freedom
from fear' could be said to sum up the whole
philosophy of human rights.
-- Dag
Hammarskjold |
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"We
often think of peace as the absence of war;
that if the powerful countries would reduce
their arsenals, we could have peace. But if
we look deeply into the weapons, we see our
own minds - our prejudices, fears, and ignorance.
Even if we transported all the bombs to the
moon, the roots of war and the reasons for bombs
would still be here, in our hearts and minds,
and sooner or later we would make new bombs.
Seek to become more aware of what causes anger
and separation, and what overcomes them. Root
out the violence in your life, and learn to
live compassionately and mindfully."
--
Thich
Nhat Hanh (b. 1926)
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Peace
is more than just absence of war. It is rather
a state in which no people of any country, in
fact no group of people of any kind live in
fear or in need.
-- Poul
Hartling |
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"With
our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring,
planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy,
a mutuality with the natural world, that is not
primitive (though based in part on fear), but knowing.
It might even be possible to relearn a life of awe.
And inhabit the landscape without violation. With
the least violation."
~ Janet Kauffman
"We
have ancient habits to deal with, vast structures
of power, indescribably complicated problems
to solve. But unless we abdicate our humanity
altogether and succumb to fear and impotence
in the presence of the weapons we have ourselves
created, it is as possible and as urgent to
put an end to war and violence between nations
as it is to put an end to poverty and racial
injustice."
-- Martin
Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
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If
we could raise one generation with unconditional
love, there would be no Hitlers…Mankind's greatest
gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free
choice. We can make our choices built from love
or from fear.
--Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"If
the world is to be healed through human efforts,
I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people
whose love for this life is even greater than their
fear. People who can open to the web of life that
called us into being".
~ Joanna Macy
"It
seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear
mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one
can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct
them eventually."
-- Abraham Maslow
"Fear
less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk
less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good
things are yours."
--Jean Baptiste Moliere
We
must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will
not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if
we remember that we are not descended from fearful
men, not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes which were, for
the moment, unpopular.
-- Edward R. Murrow
It
seems to me that there are two great enemies of
peace - fear and selfishness.
-- Katherine Paterson
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We
are privileged to have the opportunity of
contributing to the achievement of the goal
of the abolition of war and its replacement
by world law. I am confident that we shall
succeed in this great task; that the world
community will thereby be freed not only from
the suffering caused by war but also through
the better use of the earth's resources, of
the discoveries of scientists, and of the
efforts of mankind, from hunger, disease,
illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in
the course of time be enabled to build a world
characterized by economic, political, and
social justice for all human beings and a
culture worthy of man's intelligence.
-- Linus
Pauling
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"Be
a sweet melody in the great orchestration,
instead of a discordant note. The medicine
this sick world needs is love. Hatred must
be replaced by love, and fear by faith that
love will prevail."
-- Peace
Pilgrim
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Misunderstanding
arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains
the greatest enemy of peace.
-- Lester
B. Pearson
Consult
not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think
not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled
potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried
and failed in, but with what is still possible for
you to do.
-- Pope John XXIII
"I
believe that love, kindness, compassion, tolerance,
and peace can be implanted in the psyche of man
only when fear, paranormal illusion and ignorance
are removed. We can then shift our attention more
to matters of peace, rather than to matters of war."
-- Peter Retzinger
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"Peace
is not the product of terror or fear. Peace
is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is
not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution
of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity. It is right and it is
duty."
-- Oscar
Romero
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You
gain strength, courage and confidence by
every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face…You must do the
thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
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The
only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
We
have learned the simple truth, as Emerson
said that the only way to have a friend is
to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if
we approach it with suspicion or mistrust
or with fear.
-- Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
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"Fear
is the main source of superstition, and one
of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear
is the beginning of wisdom."
-- Bertrand
Russell |
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Courage,
it would seem, is nothing less than the power to
overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while
continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all
its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful
even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and
that there is always tomorrow.
-- Dorothy Thompson
'Refugees
are defined as persons who are outside their country
and cannot return owing to a well-founded fear of
persecution because of their race, religion, nationality,
political opinion or membership of a particular
social group.'
~ United Nations, 1951
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"Chinese
and Tibetan dissidents are either locked up
in prison, forced into hiding, or silenced
by fear of police retaliation against their
families. All the happiness about China's
economic growth has made many Americans forget
that police clubs and guns and the Laogai
system keep the Communist Party in power.
Moreover, it is still little recognized how
American resources help to sustain that power
through trade, investments, and the transfer
of technology... It is only when the Laogai
is abolished in China that real change will
come about."
-- Harry
Wu
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The
strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the
ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex
social structure-these remain potent weapons
against the most fearsome state or corporate
power.
-- Howard
Zinn |
