Aleksandr Lebed Quotes

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

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.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

… the many armed conflicts which continue to afflict the world today present us daily with dramatic images of misery, hunger, illness and death. Without peace, there can be no form of economic development.  Violence never begets peace, the necessary condition for development.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

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.

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.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

We could have peace in one year if women were organized.

We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.

The concept of military readiness is well understood, but readiness for what happens after the fighting stops is just as important.

The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm, and peace be venerable to men.

Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses.

If we can afford tremendous sums of money to win the war, we can afford to invest whatever amount it takes to win the peace

The sands are running out, and unless some strong hand can even now clutch Europe and rescue her from the slope down which she is slipping, the catastrophe of the peace may yet become far greater than that of the Great War

Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.

Poverty must be eradicated, the resources of our planet used sustainably, human rights respected, equality between men and women strengthened, HIV/AIDS and other diseases prevented, terrorism stopped, and disarmament and non-proliferation secured.

I want to stop war, and I want to stop disease.