Juan Manuel Santos Quotes

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any domestic establishment.

War nourishes war.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

The principal cause of war is war itself.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

the world's chief war-monger

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.