Brian Jacques Quotes

I hope next time when we meet, we won't be fighting each other. Instead we will be drinking tea together.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

The way to disarm is to disarm....

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

There will be not only peace between us and the Arabs ... but close friendship and cooperation.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

It is often necessary to fight to lessen discord. This is the paradox.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of harmony, not those of contention. The Art of Peace is required, not the Art of War.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.

Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.