Peaceful Conflict Quotes

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.

I'm no table flipper. I am more calm and collected in my fights.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace.

Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

Excellent warriors are not violent.

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.