Peace Mission Movement

Famous quotes containing the words peace, mission and/or movement:

“It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I am haunted by interrupted acts,
introspective as a leper, enchanted
by a repulsive clew,
a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs.
Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)