Gerhard Schroder Quotes

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

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

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.

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

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

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

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

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

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.

Wars occur because people prepare for conflict, rather than for peace.

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.

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

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.