Ricardo Salinas Pliego Quotes

The world today is anything but trouble-free.

We are not, as a race, so much disposed to fight and kill one another as our red brethren.

Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

We seek a logical understanding of mass violence, but war and civil strife rarely explode because of rational grievances. Complaints about oppression, poverty or injustice may serve as superficial catalysts, but few wars can be traced to objective decision-making by the dispassionate leaders of cool-headed populations. War is an act of passion, not of policy.

Talk not to me of peace. Ireland is not at peace, it is smothered war. England has sown her laws as dragon's teeth, and they have sprung up as armed men.

Not only do wars create incredible suffering, but they engender deep hatreds that can last for generations.

Poverty and ignorance, which beget terror, are not eradicated by firing artillery shells. Borders do not stop rockets, and barbed wire does not prevent terror.

We don't know if our economy, our society, could support the social and the human and the economic cost of an insurgency.

I'm not in love with fighting. I never was.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.