Baha 'u'llah Quotes

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

There will be not only peace between us and the Arabs ... but close friendship and cooperation.

We must learn to live together as brothers or we will live separately as fools.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

I am sure I feel no hostility to you, Senators from the North. I am sure there is not one of you, whatever sharp discussion there may have been between us, to whom I cannot now say, in the presence of my God, I wish you well.

How do we stop ourselves from blowing each other up because we think that God wants us to blow each other up.

In face of political differences, contradictions and struggle, the Church preaches peace and co-operation among people holding various political views

Be reconciled among yourselves, that ye may need armaments no more save in a measure to safeguard your territories and dominions…. Should any one among you take up arms against another, rise ye all against him, for this is naught but manifest justice.

We must not antagonize everyone. We must win their hearts and minds. We must win them to our side, not by begging for help from them, but by the honorable way that we struggle to help ourselves. We must not strengthen the enemy by pushing everyone into their camps through irresponsible and un-Islamic acts

We heartily recommend union and a good agreement between you our brethren. Never disagree, but preserve a strict friendship for one another; and thereby you, as well as we, will become the stronger. Our wise forefathers established amity and friendship among the Five Nations. This has made us formidable, and has given us great weight and authority with the neighboring nations. We are a powerful Confederacy; and by your observing the same means which our wise forefathers pursued, you will acquire fresh strength and power. Therefore, whatever befalls you, never fall out with one another.

I have come here, therefore, on a voyage of discovery of the mind and heart of America and to place before you our own heart. Thus we may promote that understanding and cooperation which, I feel sure, both our countries earnestly desire.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.