“In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was.”
Eric Wolf (1923–1999) American anthropologist
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 2, The World in 1400, p. 24.
Steps Toward Inner Peace : Harmonious Principles for Human Living http://www.peacepilgrim.net/FoPP/htm/steps.htm <br class="br">Context: In order for the world to become peaceful, people must become more peaceful. Among mature people war would not be a problem — it would be impossible. In their immaturity people want, at the same time, peace and the things which make war. However, people can mature just as children grow up. Yes, our institutions and our leaders reflect our immaturity, but as we mature we will elect better leaders and set up better institutions. It always comes back to the thing so many of us wish to avoid: working to improve ourselves.
“In order to understand what the world would become, we must first know what it was.”
Eric Wolf (1923–1999) American anthropologist
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 2, The World in 1400, p. 24.
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe (1948)
“If you had only two words to say to the people of the world, what would they be? Attain Peace.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Miscellaneous, March 31, 2017
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 226]
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Source: Resist Not Evil (1904), p. 27
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: The Rise & Fall of Society (1959), p. 54