Purpose

World peace through action in our local communities.


We are a grassroots organization promoting peace and diplomacy. To this purpose, we work by educating, community organizing and non-violent activism.


Learn more about us: www.BCPeaceGroup.org


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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

A Few Articles on War

Quotations

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." – M.K. Gandhi

"A culture of peace will be achieved when citizens of the world understand global problems, have the skills to resolve conflicts and struggle for justice non-violently, live by international standards of human rights and equity, appreciate cultural diversity, and respect the Earth and each other." – Hague Appeal for Peace, Global Campaign for Peace Education Statement.


"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." -- Agatha Christie

"There never was a good war or a bad peace." -- Benjamin Franklin

"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." -- Dorothy Thompson

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world" -- Marus Aurelius

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances" -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul." -- Edward Abbey