Shirin Ebadi Quotes

You cannot have peaceful means - peaceful means will have to be used to bring about peaceful ends. If you use destructive means, you're going to bring about destructive ends.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but the means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

No violent extreme endures.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

You don't kill your way to peace.

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

We stand on the watershed dividing the past from the future. Let us bury the past in so far as it is dead and forget all bitterness and recrimination. Let there be moderation in speech and writing.... There has been violence—shameful, degrading and revolting violence—in various parts of the country. This must end. We are determined to end it. We must make it clear that political ends ae not to be achieved by methods of violence now or in the future.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

We go about peace in a very belligerent way, don't we.

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts.

The world does not grow better by force or by the policeman's club.

I want peace and am willing to fight for it.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we'll never find them through violence.

You don't fight ideas with bombs.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.