CULTURE
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...Any
definition of a culture of peace must address the
problem of achieving justice for communities and
individuals who do not have the means to compete
or cope without structured assistance and compassionate
help.
--
Mahnaz Afkhami
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We
have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary
goodwill, a common global society blessed with a
shared culture of peace that is nourished by the
ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich
our lives.--
Mahnaz Afkhami
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There
is so much going on for a better world all around
us that the mainstream media never shares. Throughout
history, there have been many social movements for
change ... for democracy, for the abolition of slavery,
women's rights, for peace, for the environment ...
Many advancements have been made, but each of these
causes is just part of larger wish for a more peaceful,
just and sustainable world. These diverse movements
for thousands of different causes are beginning
to converge and a more holistic movement --what
UNESCO has described as a 'global movement for a
culture of peace' -- is beginning to emerge. The
Culture of Peace Movement is helping to unite
the strengths of existing organizations and individuals
so that creating a culture of peace really is now
possible.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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War
is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and
we learn peace. The culture of peace is something
which is learned, just as violence is learned and
war culture is learned.
-- Elise
Boulding
Peace
cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions
of how things might be, in a world where sharing
and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for
everyone.
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Elise
Boulding
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Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms
of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot
be eliminated without changing culture.
-- Charlotte
Bunch
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight
in killing any living creature. By every act that
glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in
killing we set back the progress of humanity.
--Rachel
Carson
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"You
know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their
fault. It's because society puts them in that spot.
You've got to change it. You don't just change a man
- you've got to change his environment as you do it."
-- Cesar
Chavez |
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If
we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The
most important thing is to build a culture of peace.
-- Anwarul
Chowdhury
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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind
can invent peace.
-- Norman
Cousins |
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"The
greatest gift we can give to our children is to
raise them in a culture of peace."
-- Louise
Diamond
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We
live in a complex world and the motivation to use
violence to solve problems needs to be seriously
questioned. It is essential that we help our children
perceive peaceful alternatives. We need to use these
troubled times as an opportunity to create a new
vision for the future.
-- Naomi
Drew
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Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors.
They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would
teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
-- Albert
Einstein
"We
must inoculate our children against militarism,
by educating them in the spirit of pacifism... Our
schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors.
They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would
teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
-- Albert
Einstein
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I
believe that a culture of peace must be the essential
foundation of our efforts for peace.
-- Daisaku
Ikeda
Let
us join our efforts toward building the unshakable
foundations for a culture of peace.
-- Daisaku
Ikeda
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The
world does not need a war against ‘terrorism’, it
needs a culture of peace based on human rights for
all.
-- Irene
Khan
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"Peace
is a culture that we create by putting it in the
curriculum for young people, through creating
this next generation where young people get a
chance to go across borders, across cultures,
to learn more about each other's life, to create
a global community, learn about opportunities
for helping others. It's investing in peace and
tolerance training, ending the gap between rich
and poor."
-- Craig
Kielburger
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We
have really got to create a culture in our world today
where we recognize that every human life is sacred
and precious and we have no right to take another
human life.
-- Mairead
Corrigan Maguire |
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universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment
of the whole of society. These are not matters
of government but matters of State; not only matters
for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety,
including civilian, military, and religious bodies.
The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect
the transition within two or three years from a culture
of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation
from everyone. In order to change, the world needs
everyone.
-- Federico
Mayor |
It
is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never
mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological
and material costs of war are so high that any triumph
is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning
peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding
ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective
violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty,
intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new
set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of
war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course
of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our
pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social
framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one
will feel excluded.
-- Federico
Mayor
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"We
must have research for peace... It would embrace the
outstanding problems of morality. The time has come
for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win
over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war
and militarism … Now we are forced to eliminate from
the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism,
this curse to the human race."
-- Linus
Pauling |
"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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If
all we hear is violence, all we will know is violence
— personally or globally. If we hear stories of people
rising above hatred to build a better life, we can
all find the courage to create peace.
-- Barbara
Simmons
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The
improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent
to which it was based on a change of consciousness,
that is, to the extent to which the law of violence
was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of
love.
-- Leo
Tolstoy |
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Since
wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of
men that the defences of peace must be constructed
-- Constitution of UNESCO (United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Wars
are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made
institutions, by the way in which man has organized his
society. What man has made, man can change.
-- Frederic Moore Vinson
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Time
itself becomes subordinate to war. If only we could
celebrate peace as our various ancestors celebrated
war; if only we could glorify peace as those before
us, thirsting for adventure, glorified war; if only
our sages and scholars together could resolve to
infuse peace with the same energy and inspiration
that others have put into war.
Why
is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain
such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled
at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough
to humanity to find a way to avoid war
Every
nation has its prestigious military academies -
or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues
of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean
attaining and protecting it by means other than
weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised
whenever war recedes and yields to peace?
-- Elie
Wiesel
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