Quotes on Making Peace

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human gifts among all people we can indeed make peacemaking a way of being.

When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.

Being more mature now, I've managed to make peace with my past, as it's making peace with me. Certainly there's a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

Each side has legitimate aspirations - and that's part of what makes peace so hard. And the deadlock will only be broken when each side learns to stand in the other's shoes; each side can see the world through the other's eyes. That's what we should be encouraging. That's what we should be promoting.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.