"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against
the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better,
but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse
than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking
primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions,
to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley
"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination.
All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
Give this woman Obama’s peace prize, he hasn’t earnt it, in fact if Iran comes off, he will get the war prize, she is formidable and wonderful
The Nobel just hierarchisizes an effort we should all be making, as human beings, looking to live in basic peaceful conditions (which shouldn’t need a word to describe it, in the first place). Historically the prize is political propaganda, made to make war mongering leaders look good in our collective memory.