Will Durst Quotes

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

Like all peoples, Russian millions share our longing for a friendly and peaceful world.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

We will do everything in our power to make sure cross-strait stability becomes the driving force for peace in the Asia-Pacific region.

Nation shall speak peace unto nation.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

All really civilized communities should have effective arbitration treaties among themselves. I believe that these treaties can cover almost all questions liable to arise between such nations

History teaches us that enmity between nations—as between individuals—do not last forever.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

Although our capacities to advance our interests are limited, we should be active and constructive in pursuit of a peaceful and favourable international environment.

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.

We are not wholly patriotic when we are working with all our heart for America merely; we are truly patriotic only when we are working also that America may take her place worthily and helpfully in the world of nations . . . Interdependence is the keynote of the relations of nations as it is the keynote of the relations of individuals within nations.