King Felipe VI Quotes

War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities

A peaceful world requires collective measures for the prevention of war, international cooperation to solve economic and social problems, and respect for human rights.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

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

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

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

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this -- no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

The people who know war, those who have experienced it ... I believe are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

It's impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started!

Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

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.

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.