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Quotes About Reconciliation

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.
~ Heinrich Boll
Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
~ George Clooney
No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.
~ Menachem Begin
I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
~ Rachel Held Evans
The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.
~ David Letterman
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.
~ Jon Lee Anderson
We are brothers and sisters; not enemies. It is not the will of God that countrymen go to war against one another.
~ Jaime Sin
Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
~ A.J. Cronin
War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.
~ Paul Reps
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.
~ Colman McCarthy
In violence, we forget who we are
~ Mary McCarthy
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
~ Jimmy Carter
Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend.
~ Saadi
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.
~ John Flavel
It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.
~ David Gemmell
It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
~ Ahmed Ben Bella
The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
~ Bao ?ai
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
~ Leo Tolstoy
War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!
~ Pope Francis
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
~ Fred Rogers
A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.
~ Susan Crandall