Doe Quote by Edward Said Download Open image “Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?” — Edward Said ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Movement Peace People Responsibility
Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace? — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation. — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
I do not think we can dismiss the contribution that people make, particularly when it is a very dangerous occupation to be involved in… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want a world… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
This is a time for action not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image