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No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.
— Billy Graham
The Charter of the United Nations said in its preamble: "We the people determined to save succeeding generations from war..." Can the United Nations save the world from war? The answer is No! It was conceived and created by statesmen who knew little of the significance of the biblical concept of history and the nature of man. When the perspective is wrong, the whole viewpoint will be wrong.
— Billy Graham
If you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
— Bob Marley
Christianity has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war. Should that subduing talisman—the cross—be shattered, a play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent walk in the park.
— Heinrich Heine
I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
— Wayne Dyer
There is, then, a wicked mediator, who separates friends, and a good Mediator, who reconciles enemies.
— St. Augustine
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
is more profitable to leave everyone to his way of thinking than to give way to contentious discourses.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.
— Pope Francis
I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi