David C. Kang Quotes

If you want to have good relations with the Iranian people in the future, you should acknowledge the right and the might of the Iranian people, and you should bow and surrender to the might of the Iranian people. If you do not accept this, the Iranian people will force you to bow and surrender.

When a rising power confronts a ruling power, bad things usually happen.... This is what happens when an extablished entity faces an upstart.... To avoid a disasterous clash like war, both parties have to make an adjustment, but the ruling power has to make more painful adjustments.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.

Progress is impossible as long as nations emphasize their grievances and de-emphasize their opportunities.

The United States sits down with her enemies because they have some semblance of power.

Nation shall speak peace unto nation.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.

History teaches us that enmity between nations—as between individuals—do not last forever.

We will be no worse if we try diplomacy and fail.

The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

Peace is produced by war.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.