Harri Holkeri Quotes

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

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

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

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

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.