Jonas Gahr Store Quotes

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

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.

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

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

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.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

We ought to disarm Germany completely.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

There is no issue of greater importance to the U.S. Senate than war and peace.

Every nation must have some degree of military organization, even among the most peaceful peoples. The possession of armament however, no matter how necessary, breeds suspicion, fear, counter-armament and hate.