Quotes About Peace

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Just simplify all that confusion and try to make life wonderfully simple again.

Love can simply wipe away all your worries and replace them with security and happiness.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Hate pollutes the mind.

Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

The best answer to answer to anger is silence.

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

In this quiet place on a quiet street where no one ever finds us gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain. --from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street

May we all experience that kind of acceptance and love.

I'm here and it can work and I root for you and I like you a lot and try not to hurt each other.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

Most Muslims never delve into theology, and we rarely read the Quran; we are taught it in Arabic, which most Muslims can't speak. As a result, most people think that Islam is about peace. It is from these people, honest and kind, that the fallacy has arisen that Islam is peaceful and tolerant.

Mainstream Islamic jurisprudence continues to hold that the sword verses (9:5 and also 9:29) have "abrogated, canceled, and replaced" those verses that call for "tolerance, compassion, and peace."32

is foolish to insist, as our leaders habitually do, that the violent acts of radical Islamists can be divorced from the religious ideals that inspire them. Instead we must acknowledge that they are driven by a political ideology, an ideology embedded in Islam itself, in the holy book of the Qur'an as well as the life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad contained in the hadith. Let me make my point in the simplest possible terms: Islam is not a religion of peace.

When I assert that Islam is not a religion of peace I do not mean that Islamic belief makes Muslims naturally violent. This is manifestly not the case: there are many millions of peaceful Muslims in the world. What I do say is that the call to violence and the justification for it are explicitly stated in the sacred texts of Islam.

Let me make my point in the simplest possible terms: Islam is not a religion of peace.