Al-Hakam I Quotes

The Arab world is not in a compromising mood. It's likely that your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not decided by rational logic. Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps, get something, but only by the force of your arms. We shall try to defeat you. I am not sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders, but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.

Poor Wilson did not understand that a frontier which is not defended with bayonets, force and honor cannot be secured by any other principle.

Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United States...resorted to the use of force....so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example.

How could we live without the sword?

The most important thing a politician can do is try to keep the country glued together.

After a long period of division, I will unite Israel.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

What is more immoral than war?

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

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

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.