Moshe Sharett Quotes

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

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.

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.