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Quotes About Resolution

When diplomacy ends, War begins.
~ Adolf Hitler
War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.
~ Jacque Fresco
Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
~ Pope Pius XII
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
~ H. Havelock Ellis
The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.
~ Carl von Ossietzky
It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.
~ Gene Sharp
The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
~ Robert Capa
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
~ Freya Stark
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
~ Daniel Pipes
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
~ Alfred Nobel
Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.
~ William of Tyre
The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.
~ Howard Zinn
If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.
~ John F. Kennedy
To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
~ Akbar Ganji
Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.
~ Christopher Titus
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
~ Aristotle
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
~ Norman Finkelstein
War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.
~ Ron Kovic
The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
~ George C. Marshall
Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
~ Harold MacMillan
As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.
~ Ed Asner