I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.