George R. R. Martin Quotes

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

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

Peace is something that unfortunately cannot be made unilaterally.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

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

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

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

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

Very significant. My mission is to pacify Ireland.

Weapons do not make peace; men make peace.

Leaders alone can rarely make peace. They have to bring people along.

In order to have peace in the Middle East both sides are going to have to put away history and make a leap of faith.