Chen Shui-bian Quotes

Peace is our gift to each other.

How could we claim to love our neighbour while at the same time praying for God to destroy them?

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

My message is all about peace.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

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.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.

I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came together. All the bickering stopped. All the partisan, cheap partisan warfare stopped.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Peace, unity and harmony!

Peace will be when you accept it in your heart.

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.