Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Quotes

2 Sourced Quotes

The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Creative Commons

Born: February 3, 1948 (age 77)

Bio: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. Along with José Ramos-Horta, he received the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for work "towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor."

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote