Robert Fulghum Quotes

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

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

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.

War would end if the dead could return.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

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

The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

All of us can work for peace. We can work right where we are, right within ourselves, because the more peace we have within our own lives, the more we can reflect into the outer situation.

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.