Arundhati Roy Quotes

It is not good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

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

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

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.

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

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

Love thy neighbor is difficult. That's why everybody - wars, you know. It's the hardest. And it's the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love and respect. It means respect, really. Respect thy neighbor. Respect the other, the different.

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

Peace is the language we must speak.

If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

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.

Can we all get along?

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

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

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

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

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

Never underestimate or mock peace.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

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