George J. Mitchell Quotes

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

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

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

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

War is what happens when language fails.

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

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

It is much more difficult to make peace than it is to make war.

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

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

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.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

Making peace is harder than making war.

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

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

There is no conflict that can’t be solved.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

I have to fight as if there were no negotiations and negotiate as if there was no war.

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

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.