Shimon Peres Quotes

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

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.