Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Why can't we all just get along?

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

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

Understanding precedes peace.

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

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.

The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.

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

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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

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

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Can we all get along?

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.

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.

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

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

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.

There will be times when we do not agree on every decision or subject, but we should always believe in one another, support one another, and move forward through life together - connected.

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