Ban Ki-moon Quotes

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

We are calling for a ban on weapons deliveries to countries listed as human rights violators, to governments that are engaged in wars of aggression, military occupation, and annexation and spend more money on weapons than on education and health care.

Nothing can justify war.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

We must take the profit out of war.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

It is folly to argue whether one weapon is more immoral than another. For, in a larger sense, it is war itself which is immoral.

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

Our world has sprouted a weird concept of security and a warped sense of morality. Weapons are sheltered like treasures and children are exposed to incineration

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.

Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

What is more immoral than war?

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.