There are no absolute rules of conduct either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.
There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace and ultimately no life without community.
When you've seen beyond yourself then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set then there'd be peace.
Where ignorance is our master there is no possibility of real peace.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
If there must be trouble let it be in my day that my child may have peace.
Let there be work bread water and salt for all.
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made between patriotism which is attachment to a way of life and nationalism which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical questioning and often angry patriotism.