Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

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

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

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

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

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

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.

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

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.

The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

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.

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

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

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.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.