Lynsey Addario Quotes

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

Has any anti-war demonstration ever stopped a war?

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace.

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

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

… what a fearful waste it is that we have to go killing each other before even a difference of opinion can be settled amongst people of the same nation.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

From Lady Carlisle's trip to Moscow in 1663 to Veronica Atkinson's tour of duty during the 1989 Romanian revolution, it is clear that very little has changed. Four hundred years of innovation, liberation, and improvement clearly bypassed the Foreign Office while making its rounds through Westminster.

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.