Dave Matthews Quotes

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

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

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

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

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

It is not good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace, and live in peace

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I play for peace and love.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Can we all get along?

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.