Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

War settles nothing.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.