Jan Christiaan Smuts Quotes

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

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.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

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 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.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

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

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

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

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

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

The ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars, which are inevitable in a situation of periodic lawlessness is to make statesmen responsible to the law.

it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.

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.

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

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

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.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

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

A world without war is not in the cards.

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.