Adam Michnik Quotes

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

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.

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

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

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

Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you…

Anything is better than a fruitless, hopeless, unnatural civil war.

Peace with justice is very difficult. My people need both, but we need peace more.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired. but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Peace" is when nobody's shooting. A "just peace" is when our side gets what it wants.

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

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

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

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

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.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Peace is produced by war.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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

Sharon is capable of making peace.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

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.