DOMINIQUE PIRE

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.

Through love, we come close to the hearts of our brothers - at the beginning, throughout the course of, and right up to the end of our lives.

Of what good would another lecture on peace be? Peace is not something to lecture about, but something to put into practice.

There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.

Peace is not something to say but something to do.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

A loving heart is an inventive one.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

A loving heart is an inventive one.

Through love, we come close to the hearts of our brothers - at the beginning, throughout the course of, and right up to the end of our lives.

Of what good would another lecture on peace be? Peace is not something to lecture about, but something to put into practice.

Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.

We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical.

The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.

There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.

Peace is not something to say but something to do.

To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.