Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

World peace comes second to inner peace. It’s a causal relationship, where those who have not found inner peace try to disrupt others’ quest to find it. If everyone in the world had inner peace, without question, world peace would be inevitable.