Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

There have always been people during periods of history that thought that we could get along with the enemy if only we would reach out. Peace in our time is a philosophy.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.

A war is only as good as the peace that follows.

We know that the end of any conflict is always messy. It's never a linear path when you've been at war for almost 20 years. It's never a clean, straight linear path to the end.

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

We need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!