Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

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

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

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

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

God does not always give victory to the leaders by means of the sword, nor are such things always accomplished by fighting. But what toil has not procured, words have often effected, and the greatest trophies have been erected by friendly and propitiatory intercourse. Let us therefore not spend our time here uselessly, but endeavor to accomplish something sensible and courageous for our own safety… Let each one of us studiously try to win over the barbarian who guards our respective section.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.