Bowdoin Students for Peace: What Is Peace?

"Peace is the word used for when people try really hard to be human"
-J Patrick Brown '08-

"Peace is pure, selfless, and unconditional love for all things and people. Teach this triple truth to all: a generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity."
-Al-

"Peace is when the world's people are no longer trying to find ways to kill, injure, or cheat each other on a mass scale."
-James Bisbee-

"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace."
-Ludwig von Mises, submitted by Evan McLaren '07-

"Peace is the realization that people can exist and be happy without your involvement."
-J Patrick Brown '08-

"There's peace if people live in harmony. The world is devoid of jealousy, hatred anger... basically nobody hurts one another"
-Grace Park '08-

"Peace is when countries stop fighting, and instead focus on the myriad of social issues plaguing their respective countries."
-J Patrick Brown '08-

"Peace is beautiful, Peace is heaven like, Peace is nice, Peace is the ultimate reward, and Peace is what keeps the world going."
-Abhishek Sharma '08-

"Peace is the feeling you get when you feel you are completely safe, relaxed, and comfortable. It's the ability to, even for a short period of time, to not have to think or worry about anything. Like feet in the sand, sunglasses on, cool drink in hand. Or on a pillowy couch, watching the food network late at night. Way too many people in the world do not have that luxury today."
-Charlie Ticotsky '07-

"Peace is when you visit your neighbor to meet him, not to kill him and take all his delicious pie"
-J Patrick Brown '08-

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone; it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius
of its scientists and the hopes of its children."

-President Dwight David Eisenhower (General, U.S. Army ret.)-

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"
-Mohandas K. Gandhi-

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
- John F. Kennedy-

"In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons."
-Herodotus-

"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war...the next great step in the evolution of civilization cannot take place until war is abolished."
-General Douglas MacArthur-

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt-

"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."
-Desiderius Erasmus-

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
-Maria Montessouri-

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.-

"Let us take the first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we in this land at this time, took the first step."
-John F. Kennedy-