“Mankind must learn to coexist with each other to create a peaceful world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“If you really want peace, what is there to talk about? It’s when you really don’t want peace, that you want to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“It's our responsibility to sift the beliefs we've been given through the lens of self-sacrificing love- because it's not love if it… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself.… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
“There is no time for patience - there is no time for diplomacy - there is no time for policies, legislations and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“You can build something new, one person, one relationship, one meal at a time. You can build friendships instead of watering the… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“Avoiding conflict isn’t peacemaking. Avoiding conflict means running away from the mess while peacemaking means running into the middle of it. Peacemaking… — Peggy Haymes Copy Share Image
If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Peace may be hard to achieve, but is possible with small yet essential steps that are guided by courage and sufficient commitment.” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words… — Dave DiGrazie Copy Share Image
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace? — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“I am a very violent person, Yet nobody has seen my violence. I've kept it overwhelmed all my life, With a heart… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!” — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“Until the common civilians become peacemakers and peacekeepers, no United Nations is gonna succeed in making peace.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Bomb the world with music, pizza and poetry you idiots, not Semtex, C4 and RDX.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity. — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
“We were outsider, yes, but insiders to a hard-won truth: giving your life away is the only way to truly find it.… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“Instead of thinking those who don't share your passions are not 'real Christians,' recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image