Matthew Prior Quotes

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

Every conflict can be removed.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

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

War is what happens when language fails.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

Making peace is harder than making war.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

We are all mediators, translators.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.

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

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

In all circumstances in the world - even the most difficult circumstances - we need to push for dialogue.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.