Theme
A main theme of the song is criticism of Cold War MAD ("crazy") policy with "Millions of people living as foes", but offering a message of hope for a future where love surpasses hate ("Maybe it's not too late, To learn how to love, And forget how to hate").
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Famous quotes containing the word theme:
“Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“It seems to me that upbringings have themes. The parents set the theme, either explicitly or implicitly, and the children pick it up, sometimes accurately and sometimes not so accurately.... The theme may be “Our family has a distinguished heritage that you must live up to” or “No matter what happens, we are fortunate to be together in this lovely corner of the earth” or “We have worked hard so that you can have the opportunities we didn’t have.””
—Calvin Trillin (20th century)
“... passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)