Betty Williams famous quotes

05-24-2025

When all else fails, take a vacation.
-- Betty Williams

#Vacation #Failing
I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.
-- Betty Williams

#Children #Believe #Hard Times
There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution
-- Betty Williams

#Talking #Use #Problem
We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force...
-- Betty Williams

#Hard Work #Soul #World
We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically, philosophically, and spiritually. It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles.
-- Betty Williams

#Believe #Nuclear #World
Fear's contagious, but so is courage.
-- Betty Williams

#Courage #Contagious
But without painful experiences, we dont grow
-- Betty Williams

#Painful #Without Pain #Grows
Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
-- Betty Williams

#Violence #Violent #Non Violence
I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.
-- Betty Williams

#God #Grateful #Made
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
-- Betty Williams

#Two #Unemployment #Want
God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.
-- Betty Williams

#War #Army #Blow
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
-- Betty Williams

#Done #Nobel Peace Prize #Hopefully
To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.
-- Betty Williams

#Kindness #Differences #Making A Difference
In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue
-- Betty Williams

#Children #World #Carnage
Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
-- Betty Williams

#Children #Our World #Government
We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, lives at home, at work and at play to be lives of joy and peace.
-- Betty Williams

#Children #Home #Play
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
-- Betty Williams

#Powerful #Compassion #Intuition
We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.
-- Betty Williams

#Memories #Peaceful #Tragedy
I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.
-- Betty Williams

#Kindness #Trying #World
We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.
-- Betty Williams

#Justice #Peaceful #And Love

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