Quotes from Dominique Pire

Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.

Through love, we come close to the hearts of our brothers - at the beginning, throughout the course of, and right up to the end of our lives.

We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical.

A loving heart is an inventive one.

Of what good would another lecture on peace be? Peace is not something to lecture about, but something to put into practice.