When I was five I had violin lessons.
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.
The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane.
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat. , Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris. ]
Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on current events in geopolitics and economics around the world opened my eyes to many facets of how the extended order works.
This is exactly why Patrick and I chose not to have children. " he muttered. "So we would never have to have conversations like this. Andy yet. . . here I am?""If you could answer the question," I said as politely as I could, "that would be great. I really don't want to have a freaky demon baby, and I can't imagine John wants one, either