Life on Earth constantly oscillates between peace and war, even as mankind is starving for happiness. Bliss does not come from war and violence, so why can't humanity live without the burden of wars? We are probably pursuing the culture of death. Perhaps violence is written into our DNA, our ancestral reptilian brain somehow dominates our intellectual reasoning and emotional intelligence, the same brain that helped us survive in the hostile environments of a primitive world. How could man make this world a better place? Could love change this status quo? Leslie Marmon Silko writes in Ceremony: “Tonight the singing came first, screeching from the iron bed, a man singing in Spanish, the melody of a familiar love song, two words over and over, “Y volveré.” Sometimes the Japanese voices would come first, angry and loud, pushing the song away, and then he could feel the shift in his dream, like a light afternoon wind changing direction, coming less and less from the south, moving west, and the voices they would become voices of the Lagoon”, (6)Y volvere, in Spanish means to return, to return, these words belong to a “family love song” (6) and can evoke nostalgic feelings in the heart of a soldier at war. A love song, how can feelings of love survive in a war situation, where a soldier in battle probably has no right to be compassionate and humane? The angry enemy voices are "repelling the song" (6). Hatred and violence are wiping out love; there is probably no room for love in war. "And the voices would become voices of Laguna" another place, another situation but the same difficult story. Human beings deprived of freedom, dignity, history, traditions, story... means of paper... violence” (Doctrine of passive resistance). Historical and thematic periods History online “Chronology” CopyrightOne Italia 2010. Web. 06 April 2012http://cronologia.leonardo.it/storia/biografie/gandhi2.htmLeslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York.Page. 6. PrintMario Rigoni Stern. The Sergeant in the snow - return to the Don. “In war, when it seems that everything will collapse and die, a gesture, a word, a fact is enough to restore hope and life.” (Einaudi paperbacks by Mario Rigoni Stern. 1 January 1969. Page 51. PrintMark D. Tooley is president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy and author of TakingBack the United Methodist Church. Viewpoints on war and pacifism. Web. 06 April 2012http: //0-ic.galegroup.com.library.lanecc.edu/ic/ovic/?userGroupName=laneccoll&