Peace Initiatives Quotes

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.

Peace initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement.

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

When I was 26, I founded Peaceworks as a food company that brought together Israelis, Arabs, Turks, and others in conflict regions to make and sell various food products from the Middle East. That economic cooperation helped bridge divides and cultivate mutual understanding among neighbors.

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad. All initiatives, proposals, and international conferences are a waste of time and vain endeavors.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.

We need new partnerships for peace and security.

Nothing has come from this whole 'peace industry' except for conferences in five-star hotels and a waste of money.

There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.

I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing for arms control measures, détente, and so on. He's very high up, and we were talking about whether arms control could succeed. And only partially as a joke he said, "Well it might succeed if the high tech industry makes more profit from arms control than it can make from weapons-related research and production. If we get to that tipping point maybe arms control will work." He was partially joking but there's a truth that lies behind it.

When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present bold political initiatives that would bring peace - not arguments outlining why achieving peace now is not possible.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies.

Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

Our frequent initiatives to normalise relations with Pakistan are not a sign of our weakness; rather, they are an indication of our commitment to peace.

The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.