Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

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

One should not maintain a dispute.

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

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

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

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

I'm still conflict-averse. I don't like to argue.

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

Conciliation is the enemy.

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

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

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

I want peace [in my administration] and I am told that your friend Theodore [Roosevelt]—whom I know only slightly—is always getting into rows with everybody. I am afraid he is too pugnacious.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

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

History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

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

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.

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

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.