Kofi Annan Quotes

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

You don't kill your way to peace.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

We know more about war than we do about peace.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

I want to work for peace, not for war.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Peace is produced by war.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.