Peacebuilding Quotes · Page 20

Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“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

“I detested revolutions; I believed, instead, in reconciliation and reform.”

— Maziar Bahari

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

— Mark Twain

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we…

— Mahmoud Abbas

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic…

— N. T. Wright

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much;…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron

— Joseph Stalin

Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity...

— Johan Galtung

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

— Jan Smuts

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Those values that I think relate to gumbo diplomacy are generosity, hospitality, its kindness... all of that.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

— Robert Jeffress

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

— Clement Attlee

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

— Jerry Vlasak

Engaging in diplomacy with Iran and putting an end to their nuclear weapons program was the right thing to do.

— Jan Schakowsky

Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people;…

— Anonymous

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

— Yitzhak Rabin

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

— Nelson Mandela

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

— Mahatma Gandhi