I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent more basic to human life human beings what we feel about each other what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

Friendship like love is destroyed by long absence though it may be increased by short intermissions.

So far as discipline is concerned freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence shortages of food water and educational opportunities discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

In the absence of the gold standard there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

The universal human laws - need love for the beloved fear hunger periodic exaltation the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant predictable reliable universal and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion not comparison and measurement.