Moon Jae-in Quotes

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

Wars are most often won by those who have made the greatest effort to prevent them.

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people.

The demilitarization of Europe—where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it—has gone from the blessing of the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Disarmament requires trust.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.