Howard Finster Quotes

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

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

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

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.

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.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

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

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

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

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

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

He who stays on the defensive does not make war, he endures it.

I am not—as I am sure I will be charged—for peace at any price, but for an honorable rational, and political solution to this [the Vietnam] war.

One should not maintain a dispute.

Better build them a golden bridge than offer a decisive battle.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.