Masashi Kishimoto Quotes

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

There's two sides to the sword. It's like, for as many people that love you, there's all the people out there who hate you.

Hatred will never win.

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

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. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

All's love, yet all's law.

Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. -Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!

Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.

Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.