A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Social peace requires reciprocity.
Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.