Quotes About Peace

Music has the power to divert the violent minds.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.

To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.

The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.

The world is too violent right now.

Stopping all the violent and hostile actions means ending the smuggling of arms into the Gaza territory.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

I am concerned about any form of violent extremism.

Offending someone's religious sensibilities can never justify a violent response. There are no 'but' qualifiers, and the sooner that this lesson is internalized, the rosier our future will be.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.

I'm not a very violent dude, and if something can be settled without any physicality, I'm always in favor of that. But if somebody comes near my kids, the atavistic crazy lion comes out.

President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.

At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.

The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.

What's important is that, when you're tested, you stand firm against the violent activities of those who would try to plunge our people back into the misery of the past.

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.