Yousef Saanei Quotes

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies - with more partners and fewer terrorists.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

I make war on the living, not the dead.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth

[The conversation with John McCain] is not about being a pacifist or- suggesting that you can never have a military solution to things. It's just that, it appears that this is not the smart way to fight this threat.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

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.

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike.

Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.