Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

The violent will not come to a natural end.

You weren't able to talk sense into him?" Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death." I see. You tried the diplomatic approach.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

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

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

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

War is what happens when language fails.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.

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

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

With friends you use reason and logic. With enemies you use violence.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

Your government totally rejects a peaceful surrender.

Better to cooperate with those you believe to be misguided than to risk mutual destruction.