Oscar Arias Quotes

Hopefully, together we can find solutions to our grave problems, but we'll never find them through violence.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

Today nuclear weapons are a blunt instrument. Problems cannot be solved through bombs. They are of little use. We need logic.

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 shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

We call upon all warring parties in the world to lay down their arms and pursue the path of peace, dialogue, and inclusive resolution of disputes.

It's a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Terror can never be defeated by force alone.

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet