Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

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

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

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.