Walid Jumblatt Quotes

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is failure of diplomacy.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

We are pursuing neither law nor peace in Southeast Asia. We are not even pursuing freedom.

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.