Ingrid Betancourt Quotes

Nothing can justify war.

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.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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

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.

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

… 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.

I've not lived one single day of peace in Colombia, and 90 percent of people here say the same thing. We have gotten used to living in a war - we don't even react to massacres.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We must take the profit out of war.

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

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

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

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

War is failure of diplomacy.

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

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

If we don't end war, war will end us.