Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
Interpretation
Understanding the true impact of war can lead to its elimination.
Walter Cronkite's quote suggests that if everyone fully grasps the devastating consequences and suffering caused by war, they would be motivated to work towards achieving peace rather than conflict. It emphasizes the importance of awareness and empathy in promoting peace among nations.
In practice
A speech advocating for peace at a global summit.
The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
I think that our comfort is in our history.
We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.
The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.
Through unity of action we can be a veritable colossus in support of peace. No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. Every one of us must be guided by this truth.
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
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