Permanent Peace

Famous quotes containing the words permanent and/or peace:

“The pork sizzles and cries for fish. Luckily for the foolish race, and this particularly foolish generation of trout, the night shut down at last, not a little deepened by the dark side of Ktaadn, which, like a permanent shadow, reared itself from the eastern bank.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)