Oscar Arias Quotes

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

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

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

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

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

There is never any military solution to any problem. Even when you have total victory you still have to go in and talk to people.

Projectile: The final arbiter in international disputes …

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Serbia must now be dealt with.

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.

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.