Raul Castro Quotes

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

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.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

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

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

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.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

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 best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

Our country has never started a war. Our sole objective is deterrence, the strength and capability it takes to prevent war.

Wars are most often won by those who have made the greatest effort to prevent them.

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

… in a tense situation, if time could be given for everyone to discuss what was going on before they actually went to war, we might come to our senses. Most of us are taught as children to count to 30 before we open our mouths when we were angry, and that same lesson should apply to nations.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

It is easier to begin a war than to end one, which is why the decision to start a conflict should not be entrusted to the person who wages it. Post‐war presidents have abandoned this wisdom.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.