Peaceful Coexistence Quotes

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

We deeply deplore the recent acts of lawlessness and violence that have brought utmost disgrace to the fair name of India and the greatest misery to innocent people, irrespective of who were the aggressors and who were the victims. We denounce for all time the use of force to achieve political ends and we call upon all the communities in India, to whatever persuasion they may belong, not only to refrain from all acts of violence and disorder but also to avoid, both in speech and in writing, any incitement to such acts.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

When you hate, you generate a reciprocal hate. When individuals hate each other, the harm is finite; but when great groups of nations hate each other, the harm may be infinite and absolute. Do not fall back upon the thought that those whom you hate deserve to be hated. I do not know whether anybody deserves to be hated, but I do know that hatred of those whom we believe to be evil is not what will redeem mankind.

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

Human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

In vain do they worship peace at home, who cannot defend themselves against foreigners.

We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate a man because he was born in another land, because he speaks a different language, or because he has different views is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human….Let us have but one end in view – the welfare of humanity.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none.

I would like to see invented a substance or a machine with such terrible power of mass destruction that war would thereby be made impossible forever.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.

We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place. All our aspirations are built upon the assumption — proven throughout all our activity in the Land — that there is enough room in the country for ourselves and the Arabs.

I should like to express the appreciation of countless Germans, who regard me as their spokesman, for the wise and beneficial public support which you have given to a policy that we all hope will contribute to the enduring pacification of Europe. Just as we are fanatically determined to defend ourselves against attack, so do we reject the idea of taking the initiative in bringing about a war. I am convinced that no one who fought in the front trenches during the world war, no matter in what European country, desires another conflict.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

Islam is not the enemy, religious extremism is.

May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you

When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the 'green revolution,' they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace.

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past.

We all abhor terrorists, but we have to treat them as dangerous to all of us, not to any one particular country.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.