Juan Manuel Santos Quotes

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Terrorism does not disappear with revenge tactics but through making justice and equality before law a reality.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

When we all see justice, then we'll all see peace!

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely

Truth commissions also allow perpetrators to be reintegrated into society and not go back into the bush to pick up their guns again.

Peace with justice is very difficult. My people need both, but we need peace more.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

Bahais are not pacifists since we uphold the use of force in the service of justice and upholding law. But we do not believe that war is ever necessary and its abolition is one of the essential purposes and brightest promises of Bahá’u’lláh’s revelation.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

One should not maintain a dispute.

… you can have peace at the barrel of a gun, but unless you have peace with justice and self-determination, and allow people to exist in a way where they feel they have had justice done, they can determine their own future, you will never have a just situation, you will never have peace.