“Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence…”
Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) American writer, poet, and attorney
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 255 (tr. Fairclough)
“Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence…”
Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) American writer, poet, and attorney
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948) American judge
The Pathway of Peace (1923)
Context: The only real progress to abiding peace is found in the friendly disposition of peoples and … facilities for maintaining peace are useful only to the extent that this friendly disposition exists and finds expression. War is not only possible, but probable, where mistrust and hatred and desire for revenge are the dominant motives. Our first duty is at home with our own opinion, by education and unceasing effort to bring to naught the mischievous exhortation of chauvinists; our next is to aid in every practicable way in promoting a better feeling among peoples, the healing of wounds, and the just settlement of differences.
Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928) Peruvian theologian
Source: A Theology of Liberation - 15th Anniversary Edition, Chapter Five, Crisis Of the Distinction Of Planes Model, p. 40
“Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.”
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013) http://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/rights-expert-urges-the-un-general-assembly-to-adopt-a-more-decisive-role-in-peace-making-for-international-day-of-peace-saturday-21-september-2013/. <br class="br">2013, 2013 - International Peace Day
“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”
David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan
Address in Lahore (15 August 1947)
“Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Silence Is the Universal Library http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21396/Silence_Is_the_Universal_Library_ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
"Lines Written in Kensington Gardens" (1852), st. 10
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
A tribute to those ANZACs who died in Gallipoli (1934), this is inscribed on the Atatürk Memorial in Turakena Bay, Gallipoli http://www.mch.govt.nz/emblems/monuments/ataturk.html and at the Kemal Atatürk Memorial, Canberra <br class="br">Context: The heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives on this country's soil! You are in the soil of a friendly country now. Therefore rest in peace. You are side by side with the little Mehmets. The mothers who send their sons to the war! Wipe your tears away. Your sons are in our bosom, are in peace and will be sleeping in peace comfortably. From now on, they have became our sons since they have lost their lives on this land.
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass