Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Middle East history is replete with examples of missed and lost chances to make peace.

You can’t have peace without a war.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

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.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.

I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

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.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!

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.

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.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.