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PEACE

see "WAR & PEACE" for related links


No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace
unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
--Menachem Begin (1913—1992)
Zionist leader and prime minister of Israel [1977—1983].
On signing the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty,
Washington, D.C. [26 March 1979].

Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of
cheating between two periods of fighting.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Devil's Dictionary_ [1911]

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This is the second time in our history that there has come
back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour.
I believe it is peace for our time.
--Neville Chamberlain (1869—1940)
British Conservative politician, Prime Minister [1937—1940];
{son of Joseph Chamberlain}.
Speech from 10 Downing Street [30 September 1938].

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Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back
peace - but a peace, I hope, with honour.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 696.
Cohan & Major add:
Disraeli returned from Berlin having signed a treaty
that detached some of the Balkans from Turkey but
kept Russia out of Constantinople.

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In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In
victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].
_The Second World War_, vol. I [1948]

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most
righteous war.
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106—43 BC)
Roman orator and statesman.

If all of us imagined violence as violence against
ourselves, perhaps we would have peace.
--J.M. [John Maxwell] Coetzee (1940— )
South-African professor and author; won the
2003 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Interview, in David Attwel, _John Coetzee: Doubling the Point_ [1992].

If you want to make peace, you don't talk
to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
--Moshe Dayan (1915—1981)
Israeli military leader and politician.
Quoted in Barbara Rowes _The Book of Quotes_ [1979].

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must
take chances in war . . . The ability to get to the verge
without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you
try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the
brink, you are lost.
--John Foster Dulles (1888—1959)
American diplomat and Secretary of State [1953—1959].
Quoted by James Shepley in "Life" [16 January 1956].

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember
what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible
without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid
loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the
spirit.
--Max Ehrmann (1872—1945)
American lawyer.
"Desiderata" [1927]

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only
be achieved by understanding.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.

I say we are going to have peace even
if we have to fight for it.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969),
American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII,
NATO commander, American President [1953—1961].
In a speech at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany [10 June 1945].

[On the Treaty of Vesailles, 1919:]
This is not a peace treaty, it is an
armistice for twenty years.
--Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851—1929)
French general in WW I.
Quoted in Paul Reynaud _Mιmoires_ [1963].

I see the world gradually being turned into a
wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder,
which will destroy us too. I can feel the
sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into
the heavens, I think that it will all come right,
that this cruelty too will end, and that peace
and tranquillity will return again. In the meantime,
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will
come when I shall be able to carry them out.
--Anne Frank (1929—1945)
German-born Jewish diarist.
_Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl_ [1952]

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
--attributed to Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans,
introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire.
The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level,
the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit
evaporated.
--Edward Gibbon (1737—1794)
English historian.
_The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, ch. 2 [1776—1788]

'Peace among earth!' was said. We sing it
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas.
--Thomas Hardy (1840—1928)
English novelist and poet.
"Christmas: 1924" [1928]

The German people has the solemn intention of living in
peace and friendship with all civilized nations and powers
... And I regard the maintenance of peace in Europe as
especially desirable .......The young Germany, that is
led by me and that finds its expression in the National
Socialist Movement, has only the most heartfelt desire
for an understanding with other European nations.
--Adolf Hitler (1889—1945)
German dictator.
Letter to Hervι, published in the Nazi
"Vφlkischer Beobachter" [26 October 1930].

In this age where there can be no losers in peace
and no victors in war, we must recognize the
obligation to match national strength with
national restraint.
--Lyndon B. Johnson (1908—1973)
American Democratic statesman, President [1963—1969].
Addressing a joint session of Congress [27 November 1963].

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Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can
demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible
even with those with whom we most deeply disagree,
and this must someday be the basis of world peace
and world law.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].


It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].
(Campaign address at Seattle, Washington [6 September 1960].)

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We must either learn to live together as brothers
or we are going to perish together as fools.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968)
American civil rights leader.
_The Trumpet of Conscience_ [1967]

I prefer killing to being killed. One may talk of peace only with
those who are peaceful. To talk of peace with him who holds a drawn
sword is foolish unless one is unarmed, then one must talk very fast,
indeed.
--Louis L'Amour [Louis Dearborn LaMoore] (1908—1988)
American author of Western fiction.
_The Walking Drum_

Give peace a chance.
--John Lennon (1940—1980) & Paul McCartney (1942— )
English pop singers and songwriters,
[title of 1969 song]

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one
can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
--Malcolm X (1925—1965)
American civil rights campaigner.
Speech in New York City [7 January 1965].

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace
is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
--attributed to George C. (Catlett) Marshall (1880—1959)
American general and statesman.

Any rich man does more for world peace than all the
jerks pasting VISUALIZE WORLD PEACE bumper stickers
on their cars. The worst leech of a merger and acquisitions
lawyer making $500,000 year will, even he cheats on
his taxes, put $100,000 into the public coffers. That's
$100,000 of education, charity, or U.S. Marines. And
the Marine Corps does more for world peace than all
the Ben and Jerry's ice cream ever made.
--P.J. O'Rourke (1947— )
American political satirist.

You want peace, work for justice.
--Pope Paul VI [Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini]
(1897—1978) Pope [1963—1978].

We are destined to live together on the same soil in
the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from
the battle stained with blood. . . we who have fought
against you, the Palestinians --we say today to you
in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears!
Enough!
--Yitzhak Rabin (1922—1995)
Israeli statesman, soldier, and prime minister [1974—1977, 1992—1995].
He received the Nobel Peace Prize for Peace in 1994 and was
assasinated by a Jewish extremist in 1995.
{At signing of peace agreement at White House [13 September 1993].}

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We have learned that we cannot live alone,
in peace; that our own well-being is dependent
on the well-being of other nations far away …
We have learned to be citizens of the world,
members of the human community.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933—1945].
4th Inaugural Address [1945].


The work, my friend, is peace. More than an end
of this war — an end to the beginnings of all wars.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882—1945)
American Democratic statesman and President [1933—1945].
{Undelivered address for Jefferson Day, [13 April 1945]
the day after Roosevelt died - ODTQ.}

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Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never
the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if
it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth,
or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism
or anarchy.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919)
American Republican statesman and President [1901—1909].
Nobel Peace Prize Speech [5 May 1910]

You may either win your peace or buy it; win it by resistance
to evil; buy it by compromise with evil.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.
_The Two Paths_ [1859], lecture 5

I'd like to go away alone
Where there are other, nicer people,
Somewhere into the far unknown,
There, where no one kills another.
Maybe more of us,
A thousand strong,
Will reach this goal
Before too long.
--Alena Synkova
teenage prisoner in the Theresienstadt holding
camp in Bohemia [1943],
in Hana Volavkova {ed.}
_I Never Saw Another Butterfly_ [1978].

The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes
is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.
--William Howard Taft (1857—1930)
27th President of the United States [1909—1913]
and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [1921—1930].
In _The Dawn of World Peace_ [1911].

I want peace and I'm willing to fight for it.
--Harry S. Truman (1884—1972)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1945—1953].
{In his diary 22 May 1945} in Robert H. Ferrell
_Off the Record_ [1980].

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
--Vegetius [Flavius Vegetius Renatus] (fl. c. 375)
Roman military expert.
_De Re Militari_ 3, prologue

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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to
repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the
most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity,
it must be known, that we are at all times ready
for War.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783]
and first president of the United States [1789—1797].
Fifth Annual Address to Congress.


There is nothing so likely to produce peace
as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.
--George Washington (1732—1799)
American general and commander-in-chief of the
colonial armies in the American Revolution [1775—1783]
and first president of the United States [1789—1797].
In a letter to Elbridge Gerry [29 January 1780].

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A steadfast concert for peace can never be
maintained except by a partnership of
democratic nations.
--Woodrow Wilson (1856—1924)
American Democratic statesman and President [1913—1921].
In his war message to Congress [2 April 1917].

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armistice (noun) ['ah(r)-mκ-stis]
A limited cease-fire or the document containing the terms of a limited
cease-fire; a temporary truce put in place until a permanent agreement
can be reached between two hostile parties.

halcyon [HAL-see-uhn], noun:
1. Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy
2. Marked by peace and prosperity

irenic (adj.) [eye-REN-ik; -REE-nik]:
Tending to promote peace; conciliatory.
Ex.: Taylor was always irenic by temperament and desire,
and his sensitivity to others enabled him to bring
together and work with people of very diverse views.
--"The Right Rev John Taylor,"
_Times_ (London), [1 February 2001]

sanctum [SANK-tum], noun;
plural sanctums or sancta::
1. A sacred place.
2. A place of retreat where one is free from intrusion.




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PEACE (OF MIND)

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Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
And remember what peace there may be in silence.
--Max Ehrmann (1872—1945)
American lawyer.
"Desiderata" [1927]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
And make allowance for their doubting too.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
"If " Written 1895 & published in _Rewards and Fairies_ [1910].

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind
than not having any opinions at all.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.
_Aphorisms_ [1765—1799]

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting
battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in
itself a victory.
--Norman Vincent Peale (1898—1993)
American preacher and author.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice,
ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were
to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy
perpetual peace.
--Petrarch [Francesco Petrarca] (1304—1374)
Italian scholar, poet, and Humanist.
In Rene Cartry _The Millenium Book of Cryptograms_, p. 57 [2003].

The trip doesn't exist that can set you beyond
the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears.
If it did, the human race would be off there in
a body.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
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A Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is a strategic impossibility.
--George Fielding Eliot (1894—1971)
"The Impossible War with Japan."
_American Mercury_ [September 1938]

[Remark while moving along a line of sailors passing
ammunition, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 December 1941:]
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
--Howell Forgy (1908—1972)
American naval chaplain.
Quoted in "N.Y. Times" [1 November 1942].

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One day S. I. (Samuel Ichiye) Hayakawa was dismayed to learn
that a large American fast-food chain had opened
its one hundredth restaurant in Japan, his ancestral
home. 'It seems,' Hayakawa declared, 'a terrible
price to pay for Pearl Harbor!'
--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_,
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000].

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PEDANTRY

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people
you are with. Wear your learning like your watch, in a
private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely
to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock
it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like
the watchman.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
"Letter to His Son" [22 February 1748]

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable
to the time, place, and company.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.
"Biographia Literaria"

Pedantry crams our head with learned lumber,
and takes out our brains to make room for it.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.

Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
--John Milton (1608—1674)
English poet.

The joy of the pedant who has
found out some useless fact.
--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
_Nineteen Eighty-Four_ [1949]

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
with loads of learned lumber in his head.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_Essay on Criticism_ Pt III, line 53

The scholars learn, not for the sake of knowledge
and insight, but to be able to chatter and give
themselves airs.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
"The Art of Literature: On Men of Learning" in
_Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders



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Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.
_Richelieu_ [1839], act II, sc. ii

Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet.
(The pen worse than the sword.)
--Robert Burton (1577—1640)
English scholar, cleric, and author.
_The Anatomy of Melacholy_ [1621-1651] , pt. II, sec. 2

I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame.
--John Gay (1685—1732)
English poet and dramatist.
_Fables_, pt. 1 [1727],
"The Poet and the Rose"

As through this world I've wandered,
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
--Woody Guthrie (1912—1967)
American folksinger and songwriter.
"The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd" [1939 song]

The ink of the scholar is more sacred
than the blood of the martyr.
--Muhammad (A.D. 570?—632)
Prophet to whom the religion
of Islam was revealed.

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword
is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
--Terry Pratchett (1948— )
English science fiction writer.
_The Light Fantastic_

I am inordinately proud these days of the quill, for
it has shown itself, historically, to be the hypodermic
which inoculates men and keeps the germ of freedom
always in circulation, so that there are individuals
in every time in every land who are the carriers, the
Typhoid Mary's, capable of infecting others by mere
contact and example. These persons are feared by
every tyrant—who shows his fear by burning the
books and destroying the individuals.
--E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (1899—1985)
American essayist and literary stylist.
"Freedom" written in July 1940, in
_One Man's Meat_ [1944].



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PENGUINS

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I find penguins at present the only comfort in life.
One feels everything in the world so sympathetically
ridiculous; one can't be angry when one looks at a
penguin.
--John Ruskin (1819—1900)
English art and social critic.
_Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton_

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For Family Survival,
Penguins Play a Game
Of 'Name That Tune'
September 9, 2005
By Sharon Begley
_The Wall Street Journal_

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Penguins may look pretty much alike even to other penguins,
but they don't sound alike. To generate their unique calls,
scientists have discovered, the birds use two voice boxes.
That lets them emit different calls simultaneously, modulating
frequency, amplitude and beat, write Thierry Aubin of the
Universitι Paris-Sud, Orsay, and Pierre Jouventin of the
Center for Functional Ecology and Evolution, Montpellier,
France.

The interaction of two frequencies generates beats that penetrate
solid objects such as, oh, huddled penguin bodies as dense as 10
birds per square meter. In addition, the system creates a huge
variety of "vocal signatures."

Adults emit highly individual calls of four to eight syllables. A chick,
which memorizes dad's call during the five weeks it spends sitting
atop his feet, plays a life-or-death game of "name that tune,"
identifying him as he waddles through the colony like a bowling
pin with feet and calls at regular intervals.

Playing recorded calls for king penguin chicks, Prof. Aubin and Prof.
Jouventin find that even a syllable or two is enough for most hatchlings
to recognize mom or dad (though they usually wait for at least four
before leaving the crθche, apparently wanting to be sure). From
acoustics alone, the chicks should not be able to distinguish their
parents' call from more than about 25 feet, beyond which the
signal-to-noise ratio drops below 1. Yet, just like humans in the
din of a cocktail party, they can pick out their partner's voice
across the room (especially if the voice says something like,
"Wow, you look terrific; have you been working out?"). Penguins
can recognize a mate's or parent's call despite background noise
and acoustic jamming by other calls.

"Chicks have an exceptional capacity to discriminate the correct call
from extraneous calls," conclude the scientists.

Adult penguins even factor in wind conditions. In blustery weather,
they increase their call's length and number of syllables, so that at
25 mph both are double what they were at 18 mph. This increases
the signal-to-noise ratio, leading Prof. Aubin and Prof. Jouventin to
conclude, only half in jest, that the birds "apply the mathematical
theory of communication" to adjust their calls to prevailing
conditions. [ . . . ]

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A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force
pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised
what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that
the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the
pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered
and fly slowly along it at the water's edge. Perhaps
ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching
the planes go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly
back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction,
like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the
paper reports, "the pilots fly out to sea and directly to
the penguin colony and overfly it. Heads go up, up, up,
and ten thousand penguins fall gently onto their backs."
--Audobon Society Magazine [1980s?]



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On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
--W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield]
(1880—1946) American vaudeville star and film actor.
(Attributed, proposed inscription for his tombstone.)

Six months residence here would justify suicide.
--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.
During a visit to Pittsburgh with Andrew Carnegie,
[September 18-19, 1882].



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Our children are brutalized and insensitized if they are
made to pull the spinal cord from a living frog: it will be
that much easier, subsequently, to harm a dog, a
chimpanzee — a human.

Thus a more humane ethic — a respect for all living things
— is desirable not only for the well-being of non-human
animals, but for our own spiritual development as well.

--Jane Goodall (1934— )
English primatologist who studied chimpanzee
social and family life for forty years.
"Respect for Life", in Clifton Fadiman, ed.,
_Living Philosophies_ [1990]

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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent
don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad
you have them.
--Lou Holtz (1937— )
American football coach.

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth
watch them run it, and the other eighty percent
don't know what the hell's going on.
--Jake Simmons (1901—1981)
American industrialist.


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