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Quotes about Peaceful Coexistence
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
We must therefore… hold them [the British] as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
To have a happy family is to enjoy an earlier heaven.
- Og Mandino
realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.
- Dale Carnegie
And we can't all just get along. Rather, we have to become the kinds of persons who can get along. As a major part of this, our epidermal responses have to be changed in such a way that the fire and the fight doesn't start almost immediately when we are "rubbed the wrong way." Solitude and silence give us a place to begin the necessary changes, though they are not a place to stop.
- Dallas Willard
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis
Men cannot be our enemies--even men called Vietcong! If we kill men, what brothers will we have left? With whom shall we live then?
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
- Thomas Merton
Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
- Mother Teresa
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
- Abbie Hoffman
Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
- George Clooney