Yahya Jammeh Quotes

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

War would end if the dead could return.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

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.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

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.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

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

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

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

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.