Stafford Cripps Quotes

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

In the Mediterranean you have a choice. Either you fight or you cooperate.

I don't know what is to be done. This isn't war.

Your power, which is already very great, you can increase more by peace than by war. For the outcome of war is uncertain. More often you see adversity rather than prosperity accompany it.

This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

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

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

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

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

You don't kill your way to peace.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.