Petro Poroshenko Quotes

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

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.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

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

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

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

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

War can protect; it cannot create.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and susceptibility to being wounded that actually gives our individual lives meaning.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.