Christopher Priest Quotes

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

There is never a military solution to any problem.

Negotiations in pain and frustration for 5 years is better than bullets for 5 minutes.

I don't like to fight.

Violence is my last option.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

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

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

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

There is never any military solution to any problem. Even when you have total victory you still have to go in and talk to people.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I'm not much of a fighter.

I don't believe in ideal places for a fight.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

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

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

I can't really fight.

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

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.