Ideas and Life and Hope

Great ideas, it has been said,
come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps, then,
if we listen attentively,
we should hear amid the uproar
of empires and nations
a faint flutter of wings,
a gentle stirring of life and hope.

Albert Camus

From Peacemaking: Day by Day 1985 http://paxchristiusa.org/