Pol Pot Quotes

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

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

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Truth commissions also allow perpetrators to be reintegrated into society and not go back into the bush to pick up their guns again.

There can be no deal, no amnesty for war crimes.

As in other times, we are in a war we did not start but have no choice but to win.

Forward, without ever turning back. ... All wars of independence have been obliged to suffer terrible tests.

We have won this war. We have chased out the terrorists.

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

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

I have come to fight for peace, and I will not give my hand to those who try to turn the word 'peace' into a dirty one.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

Let us fight to free the world!

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!

I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have to do to survive. I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another. I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the possibility that they might fight amongst themselves. Surrender to them would not encourage the kingdom of peace and love - and those that desire it, or with passionate intensity permit it, know not what they do.

I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.