Gloria Steinem Quotes

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

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.

When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

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

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

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

I call on Russia and the United States of America, the cosponsors of the peace conference, to help the peace process take bigger steps by contributing to the process and helping to overcome all obstacles.

I do not think we can dismiss the contribution that people make, particularly when it is a very dangerous occupation to be involved in building support for the peace process.

We now should hope and pray for a peace process. We've had good negotiations with both sides. Those are going to continue; those are going to be a commitment by the president and something that we're going to work hard on. And we all hope, for the sake of Israeli children and Palestinian children, that we do have peace.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

You can’t have peace without a war.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.

It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which would hurt the memories of our martyrs.

There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.

You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [...] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.