Era Quote by James D. Watkins

This is an era of violent peace.

— James D. Watkins

“the peace’ is normally created through the willingness of a few to do great violence in its name.”

— Ken Lange

“Peaceful people infinitely deserve our love and our respect; violent people urgently deserve our strong determination to show and teach them the beauties of…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

— Brad Pitt

“we enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked to reduce…

— Steven Pinker

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

— Anonymous

“As one becomes aware of the decline of violence, the world begins to look different. The past seems less innocent; the present less sinister.…

— Steven Pinker

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can…

— Barack Obama

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able…

— Pope John Paul II

“Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and…

— Dr Ahmed Padia Binkatabana

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

— Thomas Merton

Using violence does not achieve much,but peace achieves many…

— Melchor Lim