George J. Mitchell Quotes

I have to fight as if there were no negotiations and negotiate as if there was no war.

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

Peace has its price, but it is much less expensive than war.

One should not maintain a dispute.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Peace is produced by war.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

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

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

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

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

You don't kill your way to peace.

We're not losing the peace.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

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

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