Des Browne Quotes

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

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

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

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

There is never a military solution to any problem.

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

It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.

I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

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.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

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

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.