Eric Hoffer Quotes

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

Peace with justice is very difficult. My people need both, but we need peace more.

In order to have peace in the Middle East both sides are going to have to put away history and make a leap of faith.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

It is easier to obstruct peace than it is to promote it.

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Peace is produced by war.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.