Peacebuilding Quotes · Page 14

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

— Tenzin Gyatso

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

— Anonymous

Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.

— George P. Bush

You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.

— Rubin Carter

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

— Charles Kimball

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the…

— James G. Frazer

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great…

— Roy Barnes

“The media constantly reinforces the message that what is demanded of us is unwavering strength, poise and diplomacy even in the face…

— The Washington Post Shanon Lee

Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

— William Rees-Mogg

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

— Stephen Leacock

Reconciliation is one of the hardest words. We almost forget, but there's always a little group that can't.

— Roma Tearne

The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole…

— Chris Mooney

In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

— Ilona Andrews

“When we fail to take seriously enough what our tribe has done to others, what its implications have been and are, and…

— Mae Elise Cannon

“Get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour!…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism.…

— Jimmy Carter

With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is…

— Nhat Hanh

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to…

— Colin Powell

You know, Hillary Clinton's out there saying, we need smart diplomacy. We need to do smart power. And that means empathizing with…

— Rush Limbaugh

“You know me, Robert, when my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier.”

— Dan Brown

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

— Desmond Tutu

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

— Malcolm X

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

— Nelson Mandela

I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.

— John Lewis

Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.

— Samuel Pisar

“diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I”

— Mark Twain

“Propaganda - a war of words. Diplomacy - words of peace.”

— Ted Agon

We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.

— Mairead Corrigan

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“diplomacy was nothing more than the gilding on the scabbard of a hidden blade.”

— Marc Turner

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

— Mairead Corrigan

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

— Mahatma Gandhi