Daniel Handler Quotes

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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.

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

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

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.

The world must not reward aggression.

It would win for us a proud title—we would become the first aggressors for peace.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

We know from our own history, and that of our neighbors, that where conflicts and disagreements are not resolved peacefully, the suffering and bloodshed that follows and the collapse of economic and social development leads to tragic consequences.

Diplomacy is essential if we are to find peaceful resolutions in times of tension.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.

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.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.