Manifesto of Peace
A Manifesto of Peace
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and prejudice. You are free to fulfill your physical
desires, but not by spiritually killing your soul. In
short, you have the freedom to enjoy life by sharing
with others, but certainly not by eliminating them.
PRICE OF PEACE
We cannot have anything in this world without
paying for it. Everything has its price and this is
particularly true of peace. If we want peace, we
should be ready to pay for it or stand deprived of it.
What is the price of peace? It is simply tolerance.
We live in a world of differences, and these
differences cannot be eliminated. Therefore, we
have only two options before us: adopting the
policy of either tolerance or intolerance. While the
latter leads to violence, the former ensures peace.
Where there is tolerance there is peace, and where
there is intolerance, there is war and violence. There
is only one universal formula of tolerance for peace,
and this same formula may be successfully applied
to one’s family life and to social life, as well as at the
international level. Peace requires us to foster a
culture of tolerance, for intolerance can lead only to
war.
