Alexander Suvorov Quotes

I did not want bloodshed. I did not want my people killed. I did not want anybody killed....I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

I surrendered as much to Lincoln’s goodness as I did to Grant’s armies.

I had received better treatment from the Indians of St. Francis then I have ever heard of for prisoners of war in any civilization

The power to stay your hand is far greater than the power to strike with your hand and hinsa has no place in the society.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

Your majesty ... give the assassins money and send them away somewhere to America, and write a manifesto starting with the words: 'but I say to you, love your enemies,'....from these words, like a flood, goodness and love would pour forth over Russia.

Men should give enemies leisure to flee.