May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The best weapon to destroy a demon is violence and the best weapon to destroy an injustice is nonviolence, said by Justice” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
How I wish that all men and women of good will would look to the Cross if only for a moment! There,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
National diplomacy strategies are usually focused on promoting one's interests against others' interests. By emphasizing the global 'we' rather than the national… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“Anne Lamott writes that we learn the practice of reconciliation by starting with those nearest us. “Earth is Forgiveness School. You might… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as… — Frederic Martel Copy Share Image
“Children should be seen and not heard,' my mother contributed grimly, ganging up on me. That was the worst part, having her… — Edith Konecky Copy Share Image
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence,… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy. — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion. — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith. — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The cross of Christ divides history into two parts — the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is a process of rebuilding of people’s lives to learn to live in reconciliation with each other, despite what happened.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
