Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

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.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

Everybody knows that love is better than hate, and peace is better than war.

Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.

I play for peace and love.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

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

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'