Peace and love (love and peace, in English) is one of the idioms associated with the movement hippie.
The movement took place around the 60s, and the members adopted a communal way of life, they had a nomadic lifestyle and lived in communion with nature, denied nationalism and all wars.
The peace and love movement was initially created in England, where two British organizations promoted a demonstration in London headed by the icon with a campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, as the symbol itself is formed by the letters N and D (Nuclear Disarmament, in English).
Soon after, both the symbol and the motto were adopted by the hippies, which immortalized the expression.
The motto "Peace and Love" synthesizes the political posture of the hippies, which constituted a movement for civil rights, equality and anti-militarism, maintaining a more anarchic than anarchist posture.´
symbol of peace and love
The symbol that internationally characterizes the peace and love movement was created by British artist Gerald Herbert Holtom (1914-1985), exclusively for the so-called “Disarmament Campaign” (
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament – CND), in 1958.This symbol symbolizes the union of the letters "n" and "d", which refers to the joining of the words nuclear disarmament (nuclear disarmament).