Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Justice cannot take root amid rage.

You can’t build a united nation on the basis of revenge.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.

Eventually, I moved from a place of anger toward the Jews of Israel toward a place of embrace.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

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.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

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

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

Retaliation is sometimes mercy, mercy to both parties

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.

A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation. The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue. Democracy fights in anger — it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end.

Forgiveness is better than revenge