Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Never start a war with something you can't talk to.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

Don't ever, ever go to war unless you can describe and create a more desirable end state. And doing so takes a whole lot more than just the use of force.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.