Jeremy Gilley Quotes

But I felt certain that if the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death. Our self-destruction might take a little longer that way, but I believe it would be no less complete.

World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

This organization [the United Nations] is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

We, 'the United States of America, are now called upon to play the part of Florence Nightingale; to take our stand and insist upon it that the slaughter shall cease. Oh! let us give money, let us give life, but let us stand by our principles of civil and religious liberty.'

It is not our business to collect trophies but to try … [to] bring back the world to peaceful habits

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.

I want to work for peace, not for war.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.