Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

If you're making enemies along the way, you're going to limit the ability for yourself to be successful in advancing your causes.

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

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

I don't know what is to be done. This isn't war.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

Peace is produced by war.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

I think that people have to reward those individuals who are prepared to work across the political aisle. I don't see any other way; if you don't talk to people with whom you disagree, you're never going to solve problems.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

We make war that we may live in peace.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.