Juan Manuel Santos Quotes

As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Things don’t go well in war. You make mistakes.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

True wars are never won.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

War is the trade of Kings.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

One makes mistakes in every war.

There was a moment when I simply understood that this war cannot be won.

Nothing is gained by military occupation. All occupations are failures.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

All wars are mishandled.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.