Omar Bongo Quotes

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

I'm not a politician or a political expert, but I believe that there are many ways to look at peace.

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.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

The English buy peace rather than make it.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.

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

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

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk 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.

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

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

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.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.