Yaroslav the Wise Quotes

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

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

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

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

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.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.

We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

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

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

The world would have peace if the men of politics would only follow the Gospel.

We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

At the end of the day, I just want the world to live in peace and harmony.

The only thing that can conquer hate is love.

Peace, love, and truth trump hate every time.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

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