Richard Branson Quotes

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

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

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

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

We're not losing the peace.

There will be no fighting. We know that these fellows won’t fight.

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

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

The way to disarm is to disarm....

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

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

One should not maintain a dispute.