Top 100 Peace Violence Quotes
#1. We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.
Nelson Mandela
#2. Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#3. Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.
Dalai Lama
#4. If you had enough despair engulfed with anger, hated and violence in your lifetime ... then take a pledge for PEACE today!
Timothy Pina
#5. Violence is the easy way out and it only leads to more violence. We need people in this world who are willing to find solutions through peace, through communication, honesty and diplomacy. World peace may seem impossible, but it's worth aiming for.
Demi Lovato
#6. We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.
Widad Akreyi
#7. The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a real peace needs to go hand in hand with the struggle to restore justice,
Mohammad Khatami
#8. Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.
Eoin Colfer
#9. The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
Mother Teresa
#10. For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.
Pope Francis
#11. Peace is not only the absence of violence, but the presence of love, kindness, compassion and harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#12. Parents, choose your words wisely, carefully, thoughtfully. In the same way that violence begets violence and anger begets anger, kindness begets kindness and peace begets peace. Sow words of peace, words that build, words that show respect and belief and support.
L.R. Knost
#13. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. There is no path toward love except by practicing love. War will always produce more war. Violence can never bring about true peace.
Richard Rohr
#14. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
Frank Herbert
#15. Despite all of the violence, suffering and wars, don't forget to sing the song of love, harmony, and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#16. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
Mother Teresa
#17. Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others' interests into account.
Dalai Lama
#18. It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Mike Norton
#19. Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrument for good.
Shane Claiborne
#20. We will never have a world free of violence until we teach our children to carry peace in their hearts, not guns in their hands.
Donna Marie Merritt
#21. For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.
Jimmy Carter
#22. Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.
Monique Wittig
#23. You can't cure trauma when violence is ongoing, so the primary effort must be working for peace. You can't negotiate a lasting peace without bringing women into the effort, but women can't become peacemakers without releasing the pain that keeps them from feeling their own strength.
Leymah Gbowee
#24. Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. What does War, Murder, Genocide, Violence, Abuse, Rape, Domestic Violence, Violence Against Women & Children
Have In Common? Everything ... they all help destroy precious lives!
Timothy Pina
#26. The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence - it is unshakeable
Thomas Merton
#27. No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!
Widad Akreyi
#28. What are world needs is not more violence, hatred and injustice that keeps consuming mankind but love,peace and justice for all of humanity to bask in.
Timothy Pina
#29. All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.
Bryant McGillns
#30. There must be amidst all the confusions of the hour a tried and undisturbed remnant of persons who will not become purveyors of coercion and violence, who are ready to stand alone, if it is necessary, for the way of peace and love among men.
Rufus Jones
#31. We are meeting here to put an end to this cycle [of violence], to put things back in order and to put the wheel of peace on the right track. The task is very great, but our hopes are greater.
Hosni Mubarak
#32. Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward ... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
#33. Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.
Nigel Farage
#34. it is difficult to solve a problem that you are almost entirely ignorant about. You cannot work for peace while ignoring violence any more than a doctor can create treatments while refusing to study disease.
Rory Miller
#35. The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly indicates that individuals and groups have not discovered the true "peace message" that is inherent in almost every religion. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 55)
David R. Smock
#36. When anybody could tell, nobody was ever going to give fucking peace a chance.
Janet Fitch
#37. Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.
Susan Rice
#39. Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.
Widad Akreyi
#40. There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
Charles Bukowski
#41. We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!
We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion!
Widad Akreyi
#42. Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.
Dalai Lama
#43. It is my conviction that nothing enduring
can be built on violence.
The only safe way to overcome an enemy
is to make of that enemy a friend.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!
Widad Akreyi
#45. An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#47. The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END!
Widad Akreyi
#48. War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way ...
R. Buckminster Fuller
#49. As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.
Brian Celio
#50. In a world where no one listens, where no one seems to care, where hatred is greater than love, where hearts are hardened by vengeance and pride, where violence is preferable to peace, what else is there for him to do but heal the wounded, and bury the dead, in a war that could go on forever?
Ben Okri
#51. War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.
Elise M. Boulding
#52. Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred ... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.
Martin Scorsese
#54. No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
Yitzhak Rabin
#55. It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale.
Albert Einstein
#56. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict
alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy Thompson
#57. The traumatized soul finds no rest in conditions of peace. It's forever questing for violence, for action, for the same combination of factors which gave rise to it in the first place.
Matthew S. Williams
#58. The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.
Dalai Lama
#59. WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS ...
IN THE TERROR FOREST!
WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!
Widad Akreyi
#60. If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.
Frederick Lenz
#61. When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
Amanda Lindhout
#62. Violence especially against women and children is a abomination that must cease and desist! Humanity will never find world peace as long as we keep on hurting and destroying each other!
Timothy Pina
#63. Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason.
Abhijit Naskar
#64. We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#65. Peace is not the absence of violence or war; it is the presence of kindness, compassion, love, and care.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#67. Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!
Pope Francis
#68. Peace is not just safety or lack of war, violence, conflict and contention. Peace comes from knowing that the Savior knows who we are, knows that we have faith in Him, love Him, and keep His commandments, even and especially amid life's devastating trials and tragedies.
Quentin L. Cook
#69. Children are the seed for peace or violence in the future, depending on how they are cared for and stimulated. Thus, their family and community environment must be sown to grow a fairer and more fraternal world, a world to serve life and hope.
Zilda Arns
#70. You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
Anthony Eden
#71. Mix me with violence, blend me with peace,
Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.
Puff Daddy
#72. An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.
Vladimir Lenin
#73. ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING:
HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE
Widad Akreyi
#74. Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
Leo Tolstoy
#75. May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.
Pope Francis
#77. Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?
Marc Bekoff
#79. Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.
Sathya Sai Baba
#80. Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
Amit Ray
#81. Isn't it amazing that, historically, the "Prince of Peace" has most often been introduced to new cultures through extreme violence? European and American colonialists bring this disparity to light in a way that makes me wish that forced conversion didn't work so extraordinarily well.
David G. McAfee
#82. There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
Nelson Mandela
#83. If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
Deepak Chopra
#84. Education about gender and peace is important. Educational strategies to promote peace must consider all relations of dominance.
Widad Akreyi
#85. We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause ... If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.
Cesar Chavez
#86. If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.
James W. Douglass
#87. Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.
John Lennon
#88. There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.
Rivera Sun
#89. Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
Hannah Arendt
#91. An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.
Vandana Shiva
#92. There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#93. In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.
Kenneth Branagh
#94. I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS
Widad Akreyi
#95. Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.
A.J. Muste
#97. When we begin to live like Jesus, people will perceive our peace as an indictment on their violence; they will see our security as an indictment on their insecurity.
Jonathan Martin
#98. There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'
Steven Pinker
#99. Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to face grave nuclear threats, but those threats are being compounded by new weapons developments, new violence within States and new challenges to the rule of law.
Kofi Annan
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