Yoweri Museveni Quotes

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Human rights must remain one of the basic objectives of all rapprochement between our peoples, especially on the European continent.

The majority of Jews and Arabs want to get along. Don't let a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

The only safety of the nation lies in a generous and expansive plan of conciliation.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

Love each other because you are brethren from one father and mother. If you love one another, then God will be with you and will submit the enemy under your hands and you will live peacefully. In case, however, you live hatefully in feuds and dissension, then you will destroy yourselves.

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

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace. The cause of War must be removed. Each Nation's rights must be secure from violation. Above all, from the human mind must be erased all thoughts of War as a solution. Then and then only will War cease.

You can’t build a united nation on the basis of revenge.

I want to set up a warm and fruitful dialogue. I see that there is no trust between upper level politicians of Turkey and Armenia, but there is trust between the people. People of both countries come together frequently anyways.

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

It's a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, 'I come in peace.' I come in peace. That's why it's important.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

We really care about keeping the peace with people around us. We grew differently, that's all.