Burning Spear Quotes

I'm all about peace. I'm all about unity. I'm all about love.

Can we all get along?

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

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

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

I believe when the music is being sung or being played, at the end of it, there's some sort of grace and understanding. And that's all I want for humanity. I just want us to understand each other. That's the point of my music.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

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.

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

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

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

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

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

Peace, unity and harmony!

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.

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.

You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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.