Quotes about Conflict
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.
— Shane Claiborne
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
— Mother Teresa
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
— Desmond Tutu
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
People always make war when they say they love peace.
— DH Lawrence
We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
— Winston Churchill
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.
— Jimmy Carter