Betty Williams Quotes

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.

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

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

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

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

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

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

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

Making peace is harder than making war.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last.

It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

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.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

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

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.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.