Jon Lee Anderson Quotes

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

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

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

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

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.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

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

The best strategy for making people care about what happens is if they empathize with both sides. If you just have a Villain with a capital V, it becomes very two-dimensional.

Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have never ceased.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

I would say it's human nature to be ignorant and go straight to war, but 'Sense8' tries to illuminate the positive side of humanity.

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

From an over-arching point-of-view, in war there is heroism on both sides. Obviously, the victor gets the spoils, the victor gets to write history, but there's heroism and compassion on both sides, and to me that's very important.

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

We can never truly understand the people we hate; we can never truly hate the people we understand.

If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.

Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view

Our hearts are with you and we are ready to provide any assistance at any time....This is a war between good and evil and between humanity and the bloodthirsty.