Paul Kagame Quotes

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

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

There is no peace without forgiveness.

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

Money has a way of trumping even the gravest of enemies over time.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

It's important to mend ties after a fight.

Reconciliation does not mean covering history with a blanket. Reconciliation means truth, justice and love. Justice without love can degenerate into vengeance. We need to know the truth for medicinal reasons, so that what happened … will never happen again.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

I accept your nomination in the confident trust that the masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them, forgetting that they have been enemies in the joyous consciousness that they are, and must henceforth remain brothers.

The sad state of war makes it my duty to build.

In order to have peace in the Middle East both sides are going to have to put away history and make a leap of faith.

If you can secure peace, you may be cursed by a lot of hotheads but … you will be blessed in Europe and by future generations

It is by no means surprising that prejudices and resentments, which for years were so assiduously cultivated and so violently inflamed, should not have been turned into affection by a defeat; nor are they likely to disappear as long as the southern people continue to brood over their losses and misfortunes. They will gradually subside when those who entertain them cut resolutely loose from the past and embark in a career of new activity on a common field with those whom they have so long considered their enemies.

Forgiveness is better than revenge