Peacebuilding Quotes

There is no diplomacy like candor.

— E. V. Lucas

War is failure of diplomacy.

— John Dingell

I know no diplomacy save that of truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Diplomacy is living in state.

— Oliver Herford

We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.

— Ichiro Ozawa

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

— Betty Williams

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

— Indian Proverb

“diplomacy and that is only my opinion.”

— S. Magobs

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

— Donald Tusk

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.

— Grace Lee Boggs

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

— Shigeru Yoshida

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

— Winston Churchill

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.

— Tariq Ramadan

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

— David Frost

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich…

— Jim Butcher

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can…

— Dalai Lama

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or…

— Jean Baudrillard

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved…

— George Eliot

We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot…

— Dalai Lama

“Commitment to nonviolence must not be based on patient acquiescence in intolerable conditions. Rather, it stems from a deeper knowledge of the…

— David T. Dellinger

“When faced by an international conflict, forget diplomacy, forget statecraft, forget strategies and policies and ask yourself, what would a human do…

— Abhijit Naskar

I often see cases of Internet news where there's no reconciliation for what's gone before and what's newly arrived. That training for…

— Harold Evans

Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other…

— Hillary Clinton

I think a culture of nonviolence will help create the condition where poverty is unacceptable, where racism is way behind us and…

— Martin Luther King III

“A biblical peacemaker pushes people toward God and toward each other to work things out rather than pushing people to live in…

— Jackie Kendall

Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all…

— Bill Vaughan

“It is the marvel of the work of the Holy Spirit that those who really respond to the proclamation of reconciliation claim…

— G C Berkouwer

“The concept of reconciliation is not irretrievable, but I am convinced that before we theologians can interpret the depths of the divine…

— Willie James Jennings

The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private…

— King Hussein I

“I remain ‘torn’ (between a ‘hyberbolic’ ethical vision of forgiveness, pure forgiveness, and the reality of a society at work in pragmatic…

— Jacques Derrida

“Leaves of Ash (Divine Violence, Sonnet) You know why the West makes such a song and dance about nonviolence, because when your…

— Abhijit Naskar

“It just means that for liberal democracy to develop in the Muslim Middle East, it will take much more than merely removing…

— John R. Bradley

“...if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence,…

— Nassir Ghaemi

This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about…

— John Pilger

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the…

— Saul Alinsky