Manifesto of Peace
A Manifesto of Peace
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While peace is a boon for human society, violence is
a curse. Peace is an asset, and violence is a liability.
Peace is love and violence is hatred. Peace is amity
and violence is enmity. Peace brings people closer
and violence distances them. Peace fosters a high
level of human culture and helps it to flourish,
whereas violence breeds a jungle culture. Peace
elevates humanity to the level of civilized social
existence, whereas violence causes a descent into
barbarism. Peace promotes life, while violence is the
harbinger of death and destruction. Peace brings the
good elements of a society into prominence, while
violence does the very opposite.
Christ once said, “Love your enemy.” This means,
live with your enemy peacefully, i.e. win over your
enemy by using the power of peace. Human history
testifies to the fact that peace affords everything,
while violence yields nothing.
PEACE TURNS MINUS INTO PLUS
According to a German psychologist, Alfred Adler,
a unique quality possessed by human beings is
‘their power to turn a minus into a plus’. What
