Fredrik Bajer Quotes

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

A war is only as good as the peace that follows.

This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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

Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.

It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

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.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The only people that can make peace are the parties to the conflict, and just as they are responsible for the conflict and its consequences, so should they be given responsibility and recognition for the peace.

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.