Anna Lindh Quotes

In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Arab world, but to be the bridge between opinions and to facilitate dialogue and understanding.

What I am trying to say to Israel is, 'Listen, borders is something that we need, and hopefully, peace is something that we need.'

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

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.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.

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