Peacebuilding Quotes · Page 18

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

— Edward Bond

Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I’ve fought; talking is far better than fighting.

— Seth Moulton

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute…

— Lord Acton

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

— N. K. Jemisin

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

— John Dewey

Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“the seed for the reconciliation can be found in the very idea that forms the core of the Critique of Pure Reason…

— Lee Braver

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

God wants us to relieve suffering, pursue justice, facilitate reconciliation, and free the heart to love, but He desires for us to…

— Dan B. Allender

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement…

— Malcolm Fraser

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

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the…

— Miroslav Volf

Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our…

— Bernice King

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

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“That's Irish diplomacy for you. Huh? The ability to tell someone to go to hell and make them happy to be going.”

— Gabrielle Evans

This thing, reconciliation, isn't perfect, but we also must have hope. Without hope, there is nothing. So let's hope.

— Roma Tearne

Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

— Anonymous

The evil the enemy may do never expresses all that he is. Nonviolence is a wager-- not so much on the goodness…

— Robert Inchausti

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

— Dick Durbin

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

— Julia Bacha

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

— Miroslav Volf

“Diplomacy cannot thrive in an environment where ego overshadows ethics. Toxic leadership turns negotiations into battlegrounds and progress into casualties.”

— Abhysheq Shukla

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For…

— David Mamet

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives…

— Randolph Bourne

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,.

— Li Zhaoxing

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

— Martin McGuinness

The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of…

— Juan Manuel Santos

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight…

— Colman McCarthy