We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

No violent extreme endures.

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.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Peace is its own reward.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it’s peaceful, of course.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.