“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”
Source: Old Man's War
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“To live in peace, one must always give a damn about what others think.”
Original: Per vivere in pace, bisogna sempre fregarsene di ciò che pensano gli altri.
Source: prevale.net
“Right now, we gotta get peace back in the world. Peace is a real thing.”
As quoted in David Lynch's $1B Peace Plan" in The New York Post (22 October 2003) http://www.lynchnet.com/articles/peacepost.html
Context: There's this beautiful ocean of bliss and consciousness that is able to be reached by any human being by diving within, which is really peaceful and harmonious and can be enlivened by the group process. This group is a peace-creating group. It saturates the atmosphere. This is all about establishing peace. Right now, we gotta get peace back in the world. Peace is a real thing.
“The ideal and the real are not mutually exclusive. A thing may be ideal and also real.”
Source: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 150
The Problem of Peace (1954)
Speaking of a vision of the "Great Spirit of Peace" in 1942, during World War II, as quoted in Adjusting Though Reflex : Romancing Zen (2010) by Rodger Hyodo, p. 76
Context: The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter — it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.
“There will be real happiness, peace of mind and balance, when living by heart and right-mindedly.”
First Things First (1994), Disputed
