Bashir Assad Quotes

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

When you've won the war, you're faced with the problem of winning the peace.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!

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.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.