Jane Goodall Quotes

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to fighting poverty, all of the world's population would enjoy basic social services, such as education, health care, nutrition, reproductive health, clean water and sanitation.

As a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved.

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.

The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.

Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.

We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.

Take the profits out of war.

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

In peacetime without war, they have destroyed all that could be destroyed. We are standing on one-sixth of the world, a rich country with our pants down and hoping someone will help us.

When the guns of war become a national obsession, social needs inevitably suffer.

Just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God’s children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and be given a chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

World peace must be based on world plenty.

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples

If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere

America must get off a permanent war footing.