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Quotes About Resolution

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.
~ Howard Zinn
War should always be the absolute last resort.
~ Joe Biden
There are times for making war and times for making peace.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.
~ Lawrence S. Wittner
No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
~ Mandy Patinkin
War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
~ Margaret Mead
Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.
~ Malcolm Forbes
I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
~ Mandy Patinkin
I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.
~ Maya Angelou
There is no life in war; there is life only in peace.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Those who start wars, never fight them, And those who fight wars, they never like them...
~ Michael Franti
Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.
~ Michael Morpurgo
In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.
~ Michael Mullen
It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.
~ Stephen Lang
Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."
~ Steve Almond
War starts in the mind, not in the body.
~ Susan Griffin