Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

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

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

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.

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

The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other & my arms are the best peacemakers.

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.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

Enduring peace will come about, not by countries continuing to threaten another, but only through an honest effort to create mutual trust.

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

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

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

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.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

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