Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

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

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

... the greatest moral victory in the history of civilization if it actually keeps out of a war.

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

There's no reason we can't all live harmoniously together, and that's what I would say to the head of Iran.

We all agreed that violence begets violence, and you can't solve issues with more violence.

What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.