Chris Murphy 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.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

Violence against violence? That will never solve the problem.

We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.

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.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.

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

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

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

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Terror can never be defeated by force alone.