Alan Cohen Quotes

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Peace is our passion.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

Every conflict can be removed.

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.