Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

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

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

I have no animosity against any living soul.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

Hatred will never win.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Your majesty ... give the assassins money and send them away somewhere to America, and write a manifesto starting with the words: 'but I say to you, love your enemies,'....from these words, like a flood, goodness and love would pour forth over Russia.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

I don't believe revenge is part of my agenda. I'm a firm believer that, just like hate spreads hate, love and kindness spread love and kindness.

I'm not just a fighter; I like to give love as well. I'm a lover, too.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.