Robert Kocharian Quotes

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The price of peace is righteousness.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

Justice cannot take root amid rage.

A lasting peace cannot be founded on force, but only on a moral order.

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

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.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

May the foundation of our new constitution be justice, Truth and Righteousness.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world.

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've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

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

Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.