Denis Villeneuve Quotes

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

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

We cannot get stuck in a cycle of violence which cannot be broken.

I don’t see any role for American peacekeepers in the Middle East because there is no peace to be kept.

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

Fighting is not my life.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

The only people that can make peace are the parties to the conflict, and just as they are responsible for the conflict and its consequences, so should they be given responsibility and recognition for the peace.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.