Georges Clemenceau Quotes

You can’t have peace without a war.

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

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

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.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

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

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

We believe that peace is at hand.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Peace is produced by war.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

War is what happens when language fails.

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

You don't kill your way to peace.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

It is much more difficult to make peace than it is to make war.

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

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

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

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.