Quotes About Conflict

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.

We kill each other over which name to call the Nameless.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

When I say something, I mean it. The world needs to have a Palestinian state that is free and at peace.