There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.
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