Benazir Bhutto Quotes

According to the “ripeness theory,” every conflict reaches a point when the parties are tired of confrontation and determine it is in their interest to make peace. With practical steps, principled leadership, and encouragement from the international community, the peace process still represents a win-win for both sides.

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

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

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

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.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

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

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

It is often necessary to fight to lessen discord. This is the paradox.

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.

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.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

I will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone to find common ground.

There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

Taking sides cannot bring peace and balance.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.