Barbara Walters, of 20/20, did a story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.
She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem happy to maintain the old custom.
Ms. Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, “Why do you now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?” The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eye, and without hesitation said, “Land mines.”
Moral of the story: Behind every man, there’s a smart woman!
QuotaBillsPeace, Prosperity, Progress - Dwight Eisenhower
I believe it is peace for our time. - Neville Chamberlain
The highest peace is the peace between opposites. - Leonid Brezhnev
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. - Nikita Khrushchev
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. - Maria Schell
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart
Plant the seed of meditation and reap the fruit of peace of mind. - Unknown
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. - Mother Teresa
Real Peace is always unshakable... Bliss is unchanged by gain or loss. - Yogi Bhajan
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life. - Oscar Wilde
Those who love peace must learn to organize as well as those who love war. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it. - Spike Milligan
The first and fundamental law of nature is to seek out peace and follow it. - Thomas Hobbes
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. - Thomas Paine
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency. - George W. Bush
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. - George Washington
You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook. - Suzanne Fields
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. - Kin Hubbard
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained when one eradicates selfishness from within. - Gobind Singh
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C S Lewis
To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy. - Goldie Hawn
Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear. - Menachem Begin
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them. - Dwight D Eisenhower
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. - Andre Gide
Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace. - Janice Anderson
When you forgive a wrongdoing, you give yourself peace of mind; you can go about your life with a feeling of serenity and be grateful again. - Unknown
Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace. - Roberto BolaƱo
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. - John Wooden
We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. - Thomas Merton
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. - Gerald Jampolsky
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already. - Dave Barry
Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your spirit. That is the real meaning of peace. - Unknown
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday. To have no tomorrow. To forget time. To forgive life. To be at peace. - Oscar Wilde
My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through. - Chuck Palahniuk
We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam. - Franklin Graham
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. - Salman Rushdie
I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God. - Ray Charles
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. - Buddha