Pema Chodron Quotes

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

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

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

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

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

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

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

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Unless now the world adopts nonviolence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

Warfare shall not exist in my kingdom.

We are too good to make war our most successful enterprise.