“One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.”
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We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.