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I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you because no one has the right to take the life of another human being.
-- Joan Baez
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.
-- Buddha
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
-- Buddha
"Als de mens er niet in slaagt gerechtigheid en vrijheid te verzoenen, dan slaagt hij nergens in. "
-- Albert Camus
"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
-- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1860-1904
"Peace, in the sense of absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free."
-- The 14th Dalai Lama
We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World Peace must develop out of inner peace.
-- The Dalai Lama
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
-- Moshe Dayan
With peace as the beginning, middle, and end of life, life makes sense.
-- John Dear
I tell you one thing — if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; the whole world is your own.
-- Sri Sarada Devi
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings , we are still savages.
-- Thomas A. Edison
"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
-- Albert Einstein 1879-1955
"Alles dat werkelijk groots en inspirerend is, is gecreëerd door een individu dat kon werken in vrijheid.
-- Albert Einstein 1879-1955
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
-- Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
-- T. S. Eliot
"We zijn nog steeds in de ban van de mythe van bevrijdend geweld. Het werkt echter alleen maar escalerend. Kwaad kan niet door kwaad worden overwonnen."
-- Hans Feddema
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
-- St. Francis of Assisi
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin
"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed — but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
-- Marvin Gaye 1939-1984
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in the present instant. Take peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within reach, is joy. Take joy.
-- Fra Giovanni
Be peace, don't just talk about it.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-- Salvor Hardin
"In vredestijd begraven zonen hun vaders, in de oorlogstijd de vaders hun zonen."
-- Herodotus
"That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
Returning violence for violence only multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
-- J. Martin Kohe
"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."
-- John Lennon 1940-1980
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
-- John Lennon 1940-1980
"Voer eendjes, geen oorlog."
-- Loesje
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow the seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.
-- Mairead Corrigan Maguire
The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
-- Colman McCarthy
"Nog belangrijker dan een oorlog te winnen is het om helemaal geen oorlog te hebben."
-- Golda Meir
"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."
-- Ovidius
Peace is more precious than a piece of land.
-- Anwar Sadat
"Vrede is niet de afwezigheid van oorlog. Het is een deugd, een geestesstemming, het is de dispositie voor goede daden, vertrouwen en recht."
-- Spinoza
"Peace begins with a smile."
-- Moeder Teresa 1910-1997
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
-- Moeder Teresa 1910-1997
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
-- Lao Tzu
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
-- Lao Tzu
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
-- Voltaire 1694-1778
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says “peacemakers.” He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.
-- Jim Wallis
"De slechtste tijd om vader te worden is 18 jaar voor een oorlog."
-- E. B. White
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