Leopold III Quotes

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.