Ashraf Ghani Quotes

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

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

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

War is unsettling.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.

War inside countries is all too common.

Libya is still a mess right now.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Iraq is falling apart.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

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

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

The world is too violent right now.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

The Middle East is undoubtedly in for a rocky time. In Palestine we have a situation which is badly fouled up by the past mistakes of many people, including ourselves. These probably cannot be settled without great unpleasantness, including violence.