Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
When only a minority consisting of capitalists can enjoy the good life, while the majority of workers must endure hardship, they will naturally not be able to live together in peace and harmony.
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
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