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Quest for peace
Peace on earth and goodwill to men is one of mankind's most powerful dreams.
As much as we yearn for individual peace do we long for collective peace. Peace on earth and goodwill to men is probably one of mankind's most powerful common dreams. Here's how to make it a reality
What's this? Am I falling? My legs are giving way under me," he thought and fell on his back… Above him there was nothing but the sky, the lofty sky, not clear but still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds creeping quietly over it.
"How quietly, peacefully and triumphantly, and not like us running, shouting and fighting, not like the Frenchmen and artillery-men dragging the mop from one another with frightened and frantic faces, how differently are these clouds creeping over that lofty, limitless sky…Yes! All is vanity, all is a cheat, except that infinite sky."
Prince Andrei, as he lay wounded in the battlefield in Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace, is not the first to have been struck by the contrast between the majestic peace and harmony of nature and mankind's own fatal impulse for strife and struggle.
The 20th century has been said to be the most violent in recorded history, notably for its two world wars and innumerable conflicts within and between nations.
We are barely into the 21st and already the world has witnessed first hand the full-scale horrors as well as drama of violence during the recent US-Iraq war.
