Peace Challenges Quotes

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The problems of peace are greater than the problems of war.

Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

Maintaining peace can be as strenuous as winning a war.

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

Believe me, it is much harder to make peace than war.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.