Oscar Arias Quotes

To many, peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. To some - especially those from regions involved in conflict - peacekeeping and efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.

Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

If you can secure peace, you may be cursed by a lot of hotheads but … you will be blessed in Europe and by future generations

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Sharon is capable of making peace.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

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.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.