Jimmy Carter Quotes

History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

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

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

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

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

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

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

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

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.