QUOTES FOR PEACE

“There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and
suspicion can destroy.” - Rod Serling

“Peace demands the most heroic labour and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands
greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect
purity of conscience. The Christian fight for peace is not to be confused with defeatism.” -
Thomas Merton

“Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.” - Oscar Romero

“The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.” - Albert Einstein

“Patriotism is a religion, the egg from which wars are hatched." - Guy de Maupassant

“Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.” - Max Lucado

“If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will
seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal
need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger,
the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy
compassion of God that causes the devils much distress.” - Mechtild of Magdeburg

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." -
Bishop Desmond Tutu

"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to
proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be
locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating
always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness
frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare."
- Lance Morrow

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

“Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness
and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make
these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the
worship of power. Christians should give more offence; shock the world far more, than
they are doing now. Christians should take a stronger stand in favour of the weak rather
than considering first the possible right of the strong.” -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Sermon on II Cor. 12:9)

“Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.” - Mary Catherine Bateson

“Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop
participating in it.” - Noam Chomsky
“Jesus’ third way requires us to root out the
violence within our own souls. To resist
something we must meet it with counterforce. If
we resist violence with violence, we simply mirror
back its evil. We become what we resist.” - Walter
Wink

“Violence is the behaviour of someone incapable

of imagining other solutions to the problem at
hand.” - Vicenc Fisas