Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Taking sides cannot bring peace and balance.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Peace is the language we must speak.

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

There are universal traits and aspects of all these conflicts, and I think that all of them have bridgeable solutions. The only question is whether you are ready to take the challenge, to pay the price, to compromise in order to get more. This, I believe, is the challenge for all the peacemakers in the world.

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

I hold to my conviction that, once this path of mutual understanding and consideration has been taken, more will come of it in the end than through ever so extensive pacts inherently lacking in clarity.

World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

The only way to end war is communication between people.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

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.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.