Quotes related to Matthew 5:9
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout
— Alice Walker
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
— Mark Twain
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
— Albert Einstein
As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation
— Pope Benedict XVI
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
— Miroslav Volf
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
— Nelson Mandela
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
— Jimmy Carter
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
— Marianne Williamson
At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
— Martin Luther