Kofi Annan Quotes

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.

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

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

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.

Let them fight it out, friend! Things have gone too far.

We want to resolve this peacefully but if we can’t, there are some things worth fighting for.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

I want peace and am willing to fight for it.