Geoff Mulgan Quotes

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

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

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

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

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

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

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

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

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-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.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

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.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

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.

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.