Antonio Guterres Quotes

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation.

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Peace, unity and harmony!