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Quotes About Conflict

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.
~ Ehud Olmert
We're not losing the peace.
~ Frank R. Wolf
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
~ Walid Jumblatt
No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.
~ Immanuel Kant
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.
~ George W. Bush
Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
~ Winston Churchill
What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
~ James F. Byrnes
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
~ James Russell Lowell
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years.
~ Gerry Adams
Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.
~ George C. Marshall
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
~ Aristide Briand
Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic
~ David Cortright
Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
~ William Cowper
every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
~ Freya Stark
War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.
~ Ken Gillespie
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
~ Richard Cobden
What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].
~ Uri Avnery