Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

There is never a military solution to any problem.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

We call upon all warring parties in the world to lay down their arms and pursue the path of peace, dialogue, and inclusive resolution of disputes.

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

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.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

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

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war

Guns and blockades are not conducive to meaningful dialogue.

If talk is impossible, then war is inevitable.

I have to fight as if there were no negotiations and negotiate as if there was no war.

Negotiations in pain and frustration for 5 years is better than bullets for 5 minutes.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.