Dorothy Thompson Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

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

We will not have peace by afterthought.

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.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

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

Making peace is harder than making war.

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

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.

In great conflicts opportunities for peace are often missed and considerable and unnecessary violence follows.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

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