Stanley Baldwin Quotes

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

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

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

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

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

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

It is not easy to talk about peace to people who are mourning every day.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

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

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

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

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

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

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.