Daniel Libeskind Quotes

The telephone number is 1-202-456-1414 When you're serious about peace, call us.

It is impossible for either nations or individuals, in the management of a dispute, to have the benefit of two opposite chances. They may be, from the first, moderate, pacific, magnanimous; they will thus secure certain advantages, and they will lose possible advantages. They may, on the contrary, be haughty, warlike, and selfish ; their chances and advantages will then be the reverse of the former. It is impossible to unite the two.

I wish to see the discovery of a plan that would induce and oblige nations to settle their disputes without cutting one another's throats.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.

Believe me, it is much harder to make peace than war.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

Under my leadership, the government will strive for peace and will not miss an opportunity to bring about regional change.

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

There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds.

You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

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

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken.

What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

I see myself as a bridge-builder who can understand both sides.

It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.

I like to be a peacekeeper, and I just don't believe in stirring up conflict.

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Take that off the table. Tell both sides to come together and say, 'Okay, you decide how you want to split up Jerusalem. You decide if you're going to create boundaries or borders there.' And let them decide.

When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.

Nothing has come from this whole 'peace industry' except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money.

The John Lewis I know is a peacemaker.

Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.

Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict.