Norman Cousins Quotes

Making peace is harder than making war.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

War is what happens when language fails.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

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

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time.

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

It is much more difficult to make peace than it is to make war.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Peace is produced by war.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

We want peace, but not at any price.