Thomas Merton Quotes

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.

The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.

We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!

My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

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

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.