Quotes About Peace

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Your library is your paradise.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

The news that is brought to us is nearly always bad news, but for every act of violence or destruction that occurs there are a million acts of peaceful friendliness.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Not in imagined futures, Or in remembered pasts, But only here and only now Will you find a peace that lasts.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.

When we understand, we do not seek control of the other, hence are liberated. We