Robert Fisk Quotes

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

The UN is ultimately going to be judged on its ability in conflict resolution and conflict prevention.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.

The only way to end war is communication between people.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.