Compilation of phrases about peace and non-violence

"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men". Maria Montessori.

"What is obtained by violence can only be maintained by violence". Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind". Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no way to peace, peace is the only way". Mahatma Gandhi

"If we want to achieve true peace in this world we have to start with children, and if they grow up in their natural innocence, we will not have to fight, but we will go from love to love and from peace to peace, until at last, all corners of the world are covered with peace and love". Mahatma Gandhi

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that". Martin Luther King

"We’ve learned to fly the air like birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven’t learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters". Martin Luther King

"It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build". Nelson Mandela

"It takes courage to make peace, much more than it does to make war". Pope Francis

"Through inner peace, world peace can be achieved. Here the individual responsibility is quite clear since the atmosphere of peace must be created within oneself, then it can be created in the family and then in the community". Dalai Lama

"Peace is not only the absence of war, as long as there is poverty, racism, discrimination and exclusion we will hardly be able to achieve a world at peace". Rigoberta Menchú

"Peace cannot be maintained by force. It can only be achieved through understanding". Albert Einstein