Madeleine Albright Quotes

I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Answer a violent action with another action still more violent.

Wars occur because people prepare for conflict, rather than for peace.

Fighting is not my life.

I don't fight people for fun.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

If a man smites you on one cheek, smash him on the other.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

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

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Fighting is not something you can just turn off.

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.