Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

It is not easy to talk about peace to people who are mourning every day.

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.

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

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

Oftentimes, discussion of war gets flattened to a discussion of trauma.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

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

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.