Óscar Arias

Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way…

— Oscar Arias

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

— Óscar Arias

We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We…

— Óscar Arias

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul.

— Oscar Arias

Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.

— Oscar Arias

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's…

— Oscar Arias

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most…

— Óscar Arias

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

— Óscar Arias

In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10…

— Óscar Arias

When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador,…

— Óscar Arias

Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.

— Óscar Arias

The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries…

— Oscar Arias

Latin America has not achieved the development that it deserves... I'm not optimistic for all of Latin America, not only for Central…

— Óscar Arias

Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no…

— Óscar Arias

I am constantly challenged by pessimists who insist that military solutions are the only way to go. This was true in the…

— Oscar Arias

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

— Oscar Arias

It often seems... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred,…

— Óscar Arias

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

— Oscar Arias

It's not fair for the U.S. to spend, on arms and weapons, so much money and then not spend on health care…

— Óscar Arias

Although fostering a peaceful, prosperous and equitable hemisphere is clearly in the best interest of the United States, Washington has not always…

— Óscar Arias

I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

— Óscar Arias

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the…

— Óscar Arias

Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way…

— Óscar Arias

The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.

— Óscar Arias

“The effect of one good-hearted person is incalcuable.”

— Oscar Arias