Chris Cleave Quotes

I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on. And it is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated. Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

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

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

The war is over and these are our countrymen again.

In great conflicts opportunities for peace are often missed and considerable and unnecessary violence follows.

We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

It is easier to obstruct peace than it is to promote it.

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 ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him to implore peace for all the world.

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

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

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

We seek no wider war.

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.