Aslan Maskhadov Quotes

A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

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

It's important to mend ties after a fight.

There shall henceforth be peace and amity between their Majesties the Emperor of Japan and the Emperor of all the Russias, and between their respective States and subjects.

If Western civilization is to be saved from another relapse into the Dark Ages, it must be saved at the peace table.

In great conflicts opportunities for peace are often missed and considerable and unnecessary violence follows.

I bet the hard liners in both our countries are bleeding when we shake hands.

Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

The legacies of Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, of Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein, stand as an inspiration for all who work for peace.

I think Putin will have to find a way to signal, even if it's a modest signal, an openness to dialogue.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy".

Today is a good day for war to end.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.

It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -- all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations.