War & Peace Quote by Yahya Jammeh

A prayer dressed up as policy, this line weaponizes the language of piety to claim the moral high ground before any argument even begins. Jammeh frames “world peace” as a sacred, self-evident good, then conjures a faceless category of villains - “enemies” who “find pleasure” in violence. That psychological claim matters: if your opponents aren’t political actors with motives, but sadists addicted to “havoc” and “carnage,” negotiation becomes appeasement and dissent starts to look like complicity.

The intent is twofold. Publicly, it’s a soothing incantation meant to signal leadership in a region and era where presidents often perform religiosity as legitimacy. Privately, it creates a flexible enemy image that can be resized to fit the day’s threat: rebels, critics, foreign meddlers, journalists, human rights groups. “Evil thoughts and deed” is tellingly broad and slightly ungrammatical, as if the real target isn’t precision but emotional saturation. The phrase doesn’t invite citizens to evaluate evidence; it asks them to feel fear and righteousness at once.

Context sharpens the edge. Jammeh’s rule in The Gambia was marked by authoritarian control and repeated allegations of abuses. In that environment, invoking “world peace” functions less like a diplomatic commitment than a rhetorical shield: condemn violence in the abstract while consolidating power at home. The line works because it collapses complexity into a moral binary, making loyalty sound like virtue and criticism sound like threat.