Barack Obama Quotes

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

You don't kill your way to peace.

Peace with justice is very difficult. My people need both, but we need peace more.

This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.

I believe that there is no path other than the path of peace.

Justice is one of the core elements towards reconciliation and sustainable peace.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

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

Peace is produced by war.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

I think violence can never be justified.

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

Peace is important for Israel.

My life has been devoted to peacemaking.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

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

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.