John Jay Chapman Quotes

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.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

The John Lewis I know is a peacemaker.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

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

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

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

We want peace, but not at any price.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

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

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Let them fight it out, friend! Things have gone too far.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

Once in a while I can agree with the enemy.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.