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It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.
Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.
Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.
The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.
Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.
Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?
With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order their young to slaughter each other. Analysis -endless analysis- has been offered about the two men's tactics, as if they were coaches preparing for the Super Bowl.
The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing.
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.
The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?
