Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.
Atal Bihari VajpayeeRead
We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of peaceful resolution in conflicts.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's quote highlights the belief that disputes should not be resolved through violence or aggression but rather through peaceful dialogue and negotiation. This approach not only fosters harmony but also reflects a higher moral standard in addressing conflicts, valuing human life and relationships over contention.
Themes
PeaceDisputeResolutionDialogueHarmony
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a speech about conflict resolution at a community meeting.
More from Atal Bihari Vajpayee
All quotes βTerrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.
Atal Bihari VajpayeeRead
Whatever understanding is reached with Pakistan has to be followed honestly, and everybody will have to rise above party politics and be actively committed to make India prosperous.
Atal Bihari VajpayeeRead
Our frequent initiatives to normalise relations with Pakistan are not a sign of our weakness; rather, they are an indication of our commitment to peace.
Atal Bihari VajpayeeRead
No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.
Atal Bihari VajpayeeRead
It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression!
Atal Bihari VajpayeeRead
Similar quotes
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Remy De GourmontRead
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
Hermann HesseRead
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
T. S. EliotRead
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
Ronald ReaganRead
Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.
Neal A. MaxwellRead