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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.
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Mahnaz Afkhami *
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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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
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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.
-- 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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I believe
that careful stewardship of a culture is our best strategy for
bringing about social justice.
-- Shannon Cain
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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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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.
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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
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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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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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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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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 |
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 |  |
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?
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