Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

Nations drift into wars.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

A rational fear of an imminent danger is said to be a justifiable cause of war.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.