Javier Perez de Cuellar 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.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

We know more about war than we do about peace.

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

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

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

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

We're not losing the peace.

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

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.

In the Mediterranean you have a choice. Either you fight or you cooperate.