Let's Be Frank (1957)
Context: Frank's chromosome conquered everywhere. Peace was guaranteed.
By the end of another century's ruthless intermarriage, Russia and Asia were engulfed as thoroughly as Europe, and by the same loving methods. Billions of people: one consciousness.
“In the world of today can there be peace anywhere until there is peace everywhere?”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
The Egyptians (1967), p. 241
General sources
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Living in Truth (1986), An Anatomy of Reticence
Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist
Book VI, lines 1016–1018; Anchises to Aeneas.
Translations, Aeneid (2005)
“We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.”
Nunc patimur longae pacis mala, saevior armis
luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem.
VI, line 292.
Satires, Satire VI
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer
On a Phil Donahue Show in 1984, as quoted in The Sword of the Lord (14 December 1984)
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Citizenship Papers (2003), The Failure of War
Context: We are disposed, somewhat by culture and somewhat by nature, to solve our problems by violence, and even to enjoy doing so. And yet by now all of us must at least have suspected that our right to live, to be free, and to be at peace is not guaranteed by any act of violence. It can be guaranteed only by our willingness that all other persons should live, be free, and be at peace — and by our willingness to use or give our own lives to make that possible.
