Black Kettle Quotes

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

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

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

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I am sure I feel no hostility to you, Senators from the North. I am sure there is not one of you, whatever sharp discussion there may have been between us, to whom I cannot now say, in the presence of my God, I wish you well.

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

We're not only cousins, but partners in peace.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

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