Tian mi mi english Peace cannot be kept by force

Tian mi mi english

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Force always attracts men of low morality. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business. Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to tian mi mi english one another in cold blood. The next may well bury Western civilization forever. Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to the need for any external expansion of our power. Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. About the quote : This quote is often mis-attributed to Mikhail Gorbachev, who merely quoted the remark from Solzhenitsyns Nobel prize Harvard address. Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. A state of war only serves as an excuse tian mi mi english domestic tyranny. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. War paralyzes your courage and tian mi mi english the spirit of true manhood. Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.