June 23, 2007

On Establishing True Peace

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein learned pacifism at an early age, renouncing his German citizenship as a teenager through his abhorrence of the country’s growing militarism.

Pointing a gun at someone's head will never engender peace. Putting the gun down and listening just might.

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