#peace

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#count #ever #freedom #having #once

People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

#afraid #because #exactly #loud #out

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#being #each #i #i think #long

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#america #continue #european #interferences #objects

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#almost #exactly #fact #feminine #hasn

Respect for the rights of others means peace. ↗

— Benito Juarez

#others #peace #respect #rights

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#decencies #fundamental #i #peace #price

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. ↗

— John Keble

#angels #first #first thing #sang #the first thing

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#build #enough #generation #had #had enough

Acknowledgements! My thanks to Hollywood When you showed me John Rambo Stitching up his arm with no anaesthetic And giving them “a war they won’t believe” I knew then my calling, the job for me Thanks also to the recruitment adverts For showing me soldiers whizzing around on skis And for sending sergeants to our school To tell us of the laughs, the great food, the pay The camaraderie I am, dear taxpayer, forever in your debt You paid for my all-inclusive pilgrimage One year basking in the Garden of Eden (I haven’t quite left yet) Thanks to Mum and thanks to Dad Fuck it, Thanks to every parent Flushing with pride for their brave young lads Buying young siblings toy guns and toy tanks Waiting at the airport Waving their flags ↗

— Danny Martin

#peace #war #food