Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

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.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

It is simply not true that war never settles anything.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

We have to develop preventive diplomacy.

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

All States do not have the same interests, but are there any interests which cannot be infinitely better reconciled before than after a war?

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

Projectile: The final arbiter in international disputes …

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Since the foolish part of mankind will make wars, from time to time, with each other, not having sense enough otherwise to settle their differences, it certainly becomes the wiser part, who cannot prevent these wars, to alleviate as much as possible the calamities attending them.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides."- Unofficial UN Motto

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!