Virginia Woolf Quotes

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

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

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

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

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.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

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

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

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.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

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

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

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

There are universal traits and aspects of all these conflicts, and I think that all of them have bridgeable solutions. The only question is whether you are ready to take the challenge, to pay the price, to compromise in order to get more. This, I believe, is the challenge for all the peacemakers in the world.

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!