Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

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

We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land.

We call upon all warring parties in the world to lay down their arms and pursue the path of peace, dialogue, and inclusive resolution of disputes.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

War is what happens when language fails.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.