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Quotes About Conflict

I am for peace. And I am for a negotiated peace. But this accord is not a just peace.
~ Edward Said
The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.
~ Jimmy Carter
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
~ Ludwig Quidde
We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.
~ Scilla Elworthy
Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.
~ Lee H. Hamilton
The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.
~ Abbie Hoffman
The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
~ Tacitus
Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
~ Arundhati Roy
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
~ Thomas Merton
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.
~ Joschka Fischer
Without peace, there is little hope for human rights
~ Martin Ennals
The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.
~ Billy Bishop
Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.
~ Lester B. Pearson
Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.
~ Sari Nusseibeh
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
~ Jimmy Carter
Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.
~ Nigel Farage
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
~ George Harrison
One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies
~ Imi Lichtenfeld