Nelson Mandela Quotes

Peace is the cornerstone of our development.

You cannot have prosperity without peace. Without peace, China cannot continue to develop itself.

We must … show that peace and prosperity can exist side by side.

Peace is the most effective way for nations to attain prosperity and happiness

Peace is a pre-requisite for development.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

Peace should be our future.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education, then upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

Nation shall speak peace unto nation.

Simply to have peace brings huge investment.

For development, peace is essential.

All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Another name for peace is development.

Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.