Ger Duany Quotes

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

If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.

The end of war is to procure by force the justice which cannot otherwise be obtained.

We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.

All war aims for impunity.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

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

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

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

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

Making peace is harder than making war.

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

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

War is failure of diplomacy.