Charles Albert Gobat Quotes

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.

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

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

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

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

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

You don't kill your way to peace.

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

But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

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

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Peace is produced by war.

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

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

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.

We want peace, but not at any price.

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

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