
“To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.”
TIME interview (2007)
Peace and reconciliation in the Egypt and Syria uprisings http://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com.
2013
“To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.”
TIME interview (2007)
Alfred de Zayas' aphorisms http://www.alfreddezayas.com/aphorisms.shtml.
“We need to understand that without comprehensive peace in the Middle East, we have no security.”
Breaking the Cycle (2003)
Context: I think we need to continue working hard on developing a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East... unfortunately things are not going in the right direction right now. We need to understand that without comprehensive peace in the Middle East, we have no security.
Source: Taban Deng Gai (2016) cited in " Taban Deng Gai: South Sudan must move forward https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/7/23/taban-deng-gai-south-sudan-must-move-forward" on Aljazeera, 23 July 2016.
“The artist reconstructs the world to his plan.”
Part 4: Rebellion and Art
The Rebel (1951)
2015, Remarks to the People of Africa (July 2015)
1910s, Nobel lecture (1910)
Context: In our complex industrial civilization of today the peace of righteousness and justice, the only kind of peace worth having, is at least as necessary in the industrial world as it is among nations. There is at least as much need to curb the cruel greed and arrogance of part of the world of capital, to curb the cruel greed and violence of part of the world of labor, as to check a cruel and unhealthy militarism in international relationships.
“In the world of today can there be peace anywhere until there is peace everywhere?”
The Egyptians (1967), p. 241
General sources
Nobel lecture (1989)
Context: Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.