Ideology of Peace
PEACE AND VIOLENCE
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in construction and consolidation rather than in
destroying supposed enemies.
Many people justify violence by saying that they
have been the victims of plots and conspiracies and
so must put an end to this by fighting. This excuse
is quite baseless. What is generally regarded as a
plot is, in actual fact, a manifestation of that plan of
nature which has been established in the present
world as a natural law.
In the present world, the actual problem for a
community is not that it has enemies plotting
against it. The actual problem is that it has failed to
purge itself of the weaknesses that provide others
with the opportunity to exploit it. An established
state of peace is a safeguard against this kind of
exploitation. Violence means rendering oneself
insecure by breaking the defence line.
