Adolfo Perez Esquivel Quotes

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.

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

Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.

We have to stop the cycle of violence affecting so many of our communities. We have to love each other.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

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

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

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

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.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

War would end if the dead could return.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

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

The motive power of democracy is love.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.