Peacebuilding Quotes · Page 19

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence…

— Pope Francis

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

— David Mitchell

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

— Sheri S. Tepper

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

— Malala Yousafzai

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

— Cynthia P. Schneider

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

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

— Robert Jeffress

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.'…

— Bernice King

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be…

— Tom Coburn

“There's always that one thing, right? A particular action that is your own personal line in the sand. The nuclear threat you…

— Stacey Kade

The model of the Abraham Accords between Israel and the Arab world serves as a powerful reminder that diplomacy is not an…

— Bill Hagerty

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and…

— Barbara Lee

I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world.…

— Paul Hasluck

The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such…

— Lanza del Vasto

Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

— Alice Munro

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence,…

— Mairead Corrigan

“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

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The cross of Christ divides history into two parts — the preparation for and the accomplishment of reconciliation;”

— Herman Bavinck

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

— Joan Baez

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

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

— Martin Firrell

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

— Cesar Chavez

In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the…

— Nelson Mandela

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

— Dee Dee Myers

“What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?”

— Mary Jo Bowman

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

— Anonymous

I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to…

— Adam Michnik

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to…

— Bryan Stevenson

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

— Andrew Young