Hermocrates Quotes

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

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

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 can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

There is no such thing as a happy compromise. Israelis and Palestinians cannot become one happy family because they are not one, not happy and not family either. They are two unhappy families who must divide a small house into even smaller apartments. The first step, is to sign peace with clenched teeth, and after signing the contract, start working slowly on a gradual emotional de-escalation on both sides.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

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

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

We have brought you back, I think, Peace with Honor.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace – but a peace I hope with honour.

I am not—as I am sure I will be charged—for peace at any price, but for an honorable rational, and political solution to this [the Vietnam] war.

An armistice—a cessation of hostilities—is the end of the struggle, and the insurgents would be in peaceable possession of all that has been struggled for.

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

Truce is an old Arabic word. It goes way, way back in Islamic-Arabic culture, and it means, "We will get you later.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

One should not maintain a dispute.

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.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

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

Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.