Alexei Navalny Quotes

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

The G7 - and earlier, the G8 - were a group of countries that shared the same values with regard to freedom and democracy, and through the annexation of Crimea, Russia made it clear at a certain point that these values of keeping the peace, integrity of the borders of a country were not being respected.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the possibility that they might fight amongst themselves. Surrender to them would not encourage the kingdom of peace and love - and those that desire it, or with passionate intensity permit it, know not what they do.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

There are people on the left who say, Look, we can't let these atrocities go on, so let's enter the war and get rid of Bashar Assad. The problem with that is you get into a nuclear war with Russia. And Syria gets wiped out along with everything else. So, it's fine to say, OK, let's stop the crimes, but how exactly?

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.