Democritus Quotes

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.

We can't afford to be killing one another.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

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

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

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

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

In the East, the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy.

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

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.

Animosity is not a policy.

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

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Freedom is won by violence, but needs mutual tolerance to survive.

The only hope for the Middle East is for moderates to win.

How could we live without the sword?

Do not listen to those who set up doctrines which are dangerous to the peace of the world.

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

Educational systems should be vehicles to tolerance, not tools for propaganda, and should never be used to install enmity and hatred. One of the root causes of the ongoing tragic events in the Middle East was the systematic misuse of education through schools and the media by the Palestinian Authority.

God doesn’t speak to me at all. The only way we can live with each other is to have a civil society that is really civil.