Juan Manuel Santos Quotes

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive.

Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are.

Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.