
— Thomas Watson English nonconformist preacher and author 1616 - 1686
From Heaven Taken By Storm, Soli Deo Gloria Publications edition, pg. 73.
Quoted in a statement to Parliament as as "a maxim not to be despised" (4 September 1654)
— Thomas Watson English nonconformist preacher and author 1616 - 1686
From Heaven Taken By Storm, Soli Deo Gloria Publications edition, pg. 73.
„The greatest of British interests is peace.“
— Henry Campbell-Bannerman Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1836 - 1908
Speech in the Circus, Anlaby Road, Hull (8 March 1899), quoted in The Times (9 March 1899), p. 6
Leader of the Opposition
„Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.“
— Bill Cosby American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist 1937
„First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.“
— Thomas à Kempis, buch Nachfolge Christi
Book II, ch. 3.
The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)
„There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death“
— Bret Harte American author and poet 1836 - 1902
East and West Poems, Part I, The Copperhead.
„I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.“
— Mahatma Gandhi pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India 1869 - 1948
Speech at Victoria Hall, Geneva (10 December 1931) http://www.gandhiserve.org/information/listen_to_gandhi/lec_11_france_genevawtrans/augven_geneva_01.html
1930s
— Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948
Thank God for the Bomb written by Robert John Daisley, Ozzy Osbourne, John Osbourne, Jake Williams, Robert Daisley
Song lyrics, The Ultimate Sin (1986)
— Jim Yong Kim Korean-American physician and anthropologist, 12th President of the World Bank 1959
UN News Centre, Interview with Jim Yong Kim, 7 October 13
— Alfred de Zayas American United Nations official 1947
Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013) http://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/rights-expert-urges-the-un-general-assembly-to-adopt-a-more-decisive-role-in-peace-making-for-international-day-of-peace-saturday-21-september-2013/.
2013, 2013 - International Peace Day
„Happy the state which in times of peace is yet prepared for war.“
Felix est illa civitas quae in pace bellum cogitat.
— Gerald of Wales Medieval clergyman and historian 1146
Book 2, chapter 9, p. 271.
Compare Vegetius De Re Militari: "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum" (Let him who desires peace prepare for war).
Descriptio Cambriae (The Description of Wales) (1194)
— Kenneth N. Waltz, buch Man, the State, and War
Quelle: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter IV, The Second Image, p. 98
„…Poverty and violence are not God made, they are man made. Poverty and peace cannot coexist.“
— Ela Bhatt founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) 1933
Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
„The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.“
— James A. Garfield American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881) 1831 - 1881
Letter to H. N. Eldridge (12 December 1869) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 13
1860s
Variante: The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
„This is a place of peace," Medwyn said, "and therefore not suitable for men, at least, not yet.“
— Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
Quelle: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 13
„The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.“
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
2000s, 2001, First inaugural address (January 2001)
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
2000s, 2001, Invasion of Afghanistan (October 2001)
— Thomas More, buch Utopia
Quelle: Utopia (1516), Ch. 9 : Of the Religions of the Utopians
Kontext: Utopus having understood that before his coming among them the old inhabitants had been engaged in great quarrels concerning religion, by which they were so divided among themselves, that he found it an easy thing to conquer them, since, instead of uniting their forces against him, every different party in religion fought by themselves. After he had subdued them he made a law that every man might be of what religion he pleased, and might endeavour to draw others to it by the force of argument and by amicable and modest ways, but without bitterness against those of other opinions; but that he ought to use no other force but that of persuasion, and was neither to mix with it reproaches nor violence; and such as did otherwise were to be condemned to banishment or slavery.
This law was made by Utopus, not only for preserving the public peace, which he saw suffered much by daily contentions and irreconcilable heats, but because he thought the interest of religion itself required it. He judged it not fit to determine anything rashly; and seemed to doubt whether those different forms of religion might not all come from God, who might inspire man in a different manner, and be pleased with this variety; he therefore thought it indecent and foolish for any man to threaten and terrify another to make him believe what did not appear to him to be true. And supposing that only one religion was really true, and the rest false, he imagined that the native force of truth would at last break forth and shine bright, if supported only by the strength of argument, and attended to with a gentle and unprejudiced mind; while, on the other hand, if such debates were carried on with violence and tumults, as the most wicked are always the most obstinate, so the best and most holy religion might be choked with superstition, as corn is with briars and thorns; he therefore left men wholly to their liberty, that they might be free to believe as they should see cause.