Yasser Arafat Quotes

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Sometimes you have two egos—one on each side—and as you go up the escalation ladder, one of them may do something just to appear strong.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

I like power and I like to use it.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

The way to have power is to take it.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Cooperation requires a certain degree of trust between states. The threshold of trust required for cooperation depends on a set of variables including a state's relative power and costs of conflict…. conflict between trustworthy states is possible, when we see conflict it is a sign that one or both of the states are likely to be untrustworthy.

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

Negotiation is not a solution and will not solve anything. Those who think of negotiation when they are threatened only reveal their weakness and incapability. That is a bad move.

Sirs, strive not: lead men courteously, and my son, to my cousin the prince, and strive not for my taking, for I am so great a lord to make you all rich

I started to fight with the men. I raised my voice, and they started listening to me.

In peace, as there is more time to spare, the leaders are expected to persuade the rank and file, instead of commanding them.

It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.

If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?