Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

Collective effort can produce collective security and that if such effort is not made, it is because the will and the courage to make it are not there.

Security can no longer be attained by arming ourselves against a potential enemy. Rather, security is attainable only with his cooperation.

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security of all.

[America should engage in] Progressive development of regional and other collective arrangements for individual and collective self-defense

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

The strength of all free peoples lies in unity; their danger, in discord

We must not allow Iran to manipulate the economy of the world because they have a nuclear weapon…. Iran is a clear and present danger to the state of Israel, the United States, and the rest of the world.

Only by carrying forward such a program with common determination and united national support, can we expect, in the long range of the future, to avoid becoming victims of destructive forces of international anarchy which in the absence of organized international relations will rule the world. By the procedure of cooperation with other nations likewise intent upon security, we can and will remain masters of our own fate.

Strong as we are I don't believe that we can have any security standing alone.

There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see.

As a mature and responsible nation, one of India's foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

Our safety requires a long-term military presence in the Middle East because that's where the plans to attack us are emanating.

A union is necessary for the purposes of a national defense. United, we are strong; divided, we are weak. It is easy for hostile nations to sweep off a number of separate states, one after another…. This shows us the necessity of combining our whole force, and, as to national purposes, becoming one state.

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.

When a number of animals live in a group, herd or flock, they carry on the struggle for existence in common against the outside world … The animals which live socially no longer wage a struggle against each other, wherein the weak succumb; just the reverse, the weak enjoy the same advantages as the strong. When some animals have the advantage by means of greater strength, sharper smell, or experience in finding the best pasture or in warding off the enemy, this advantage does not accrue only to these better fitted, but also to the entire group. This combining of the animals’ separate powers into one unit gives to the group a new and much stronger power than any one individual possessed, even the strongest. It is owing to this united strength that the defenseless plant-eaters can ward off rapacious animals. It is only by means of this unity that some animals are able to protect their young.

[In a nuclear era:] It is necessary for all [nations] to feel they are equally secure.

I vow to sever any hand raised against this struggling country and to gouge out any eye that glances at us with hate.

We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood.

America should not play a solitary role with respect either to security or to reform.

We can not have peace and prosperity in Asia with any single country trying to dominate the region.