Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

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

This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.

You can’t have peace without a war.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

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

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Peace has its price, but it is much less expensive than war.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

Boundary and peace treaties are not inspired documents.

Borders most often result from wars or peace treaties that end wars.