Quotes on Peace

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

My dream is that one day, all people will live without fear, in real peace, with no fighting and no hostility.

Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.