Noel Coward Quotes

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

Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.

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

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.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

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

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

If you can secure peace, you may be cursed by a lot of hotheads but … you will be blessed in Europe and by future generations

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

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

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

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

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.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

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.

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.