This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The lost opportunities of the years since September 11 are the stuff of tragedy. Remember the people rallying in sympathy on the streets of Teheran, the famous headline - 'we are all Americans now.' Five years later much of the world wonders what America is now. As we face this landscape of failure and disorder, nothing is more urgent than for us to begin again to rebuild a bipartisan consensus to ensure our interests, increase our security and advance our values. It could well start with what our founders had in mind when they pledged 'a decent respect for the opinions of mankind' in the Declaration of Independence. I think it's fair to say we are now all internationalists and we are all realists. This Administration's choices were false choices. Internationalism versus unilateralism. Realism versus idealism. Is there really any argument that America must remain a preeminent leader for peace and freedom, and yet we must be more willing to work in concert with other nations and international institutions to reach common goals? The American character is both idealistic and realistic: why can't our government reflect both?
Argument | Character | Failure | Famous | Government | Mind | Nations | Nothing | Peace | People | Respect | Security | Sympathy | Work | World | Government | Respect | Failure | Realism | Leader | Think |
I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.
Birth | Control | Grave | Health | Peace | People | Time | Obstacle |
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.
Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL
A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Tacitus, fully Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus NULL
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya, aka Rabi'a of Basra or Basri, Saint Rabia of Basra
Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness. My Beloved is alone with me there, always. I have found nothing in all the worlds that could match His love, This love that harrows the sands of my desert. If I come to die of desire and my Beloved is still not satisfied, I would live in eternal despair. To abandon all that He has fashioned and hold in the palm of my hand certain proof that He loves me That is the name and the goal of my search.
Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine.
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We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.
Friend | Hell | Peace | Power | Rage | Rest | Spirit | Strength | Will |
Ralph Bunche, fully Ralph Johnson Bunche
To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war.
Rachel Carson, fully Rachel Louise Carson
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.
Rachel Carson, fully Rachel Louise Carson
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic
Better | Courage | Cruelty | Men | Peace | Cruelty | Victim |
As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice.
Better | Change | Liberty | Men | Peace | Regard | Happiness |
Greens all over the globe will need to develop the facilities of democracy for voters, workers, consumers, small taxpayers and the environment so that all people may participate in power to advance justice, peace and the pursuit of happiness.
Ramakrishna, aka Ramakrishna Paramhamsa or Sri Ramakrishna, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay NULL
One finds peace of mind in the company of holy men.
Raymond Chandler, fully Raymond Thornton Chandler
The mystery story is a kind of writing that need not dwell in the shadow of the past and owes little if any allegiance to the cult of the classics. It is a good deal more than unlikely that any writer now living will produce a better historical novel than Henry Esmond, a better tale of children than The Golden Age, a sharper social vignette than Madame Bovary, a more graceful and elegant evocation than The Spoils of Poynton, a wider and richer canvas than War and Peace or The Brothers Karamazov. But to devise a more plausible mystery than The Hound of the Baskervilles or The Purloined Letter should not be too difficult. Nowadays it would be rather more difficult not to.
Better | Children | Cult | Good | Little | Mystery | Need | Past | Peace | Story | War | Will | Writing |
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.
Conspiracy | Fighting | Happy | Object | Peace | Strength | Struggle |
Rebecca West, pen name of Mrs. Cicily Maxwell Andrews, born Fairfield, aka Dame Rebecca West
For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.