Day 1,610: proselytiser, founder

The main threat to peace comes not from realists, he thought, but from zealots and proselytisers who are quick to condemn and who demand change over a point of principle

The attempt to co-exist could founder.

What does Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy have to teach the world?

Artwork of the day 
Mural in the Founders foyer in Hamilton
Ralph Hotere
Style: Abstract Expressionism
Genre: installation

Word of the day 
proselytiser: a person who to tries to persuade other people to accept a particular religious or political belief, idea, or way of life 
founder: to fill with water and sink, or fig. to fail:

Quote of the day
“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”

― Gandhi