Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
As quoted in "Is World Peace on the Horizon?", in The Watchtower (15 April 1991)
Ukraine: Church continues to help refugees and pray for peace https://acninternational.org/ukraine-church-continues-to-help-refugees-and-pray-for-peace/ (24 February 2022)
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
As quoted in "Is World Peace on the Horizon?", in The Watchtower (15 April 1991)
Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Broadcast (27 September 1938), quoted in The Times (28 September 1938), p. 10
Prime Minister
“Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
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
“Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.”
Mario Vargas Llosa book The War of the End of the World
Source: The War of the End of the World
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)
Context: Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995) Israeli politician, statesman and general
Speech to the US Congress (26 July 1994)
Context: I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in — the war for peace.
Michael T. Flynn (1958) 25th United States National Security Advisor
Pope Francis, Introduction
The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies (2016)
“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