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Oscar Arias Quotes

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Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet  (Oscar Arias Quotes) Our world is certainly dangerous, but it is made more dangerous, not less, by those who value profits over peace.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) The best way to perpetuate poverty is by spending on arms and military, and the best way to fight terrorism is by fighting the basic needs of humanity, because hunger and poverty perpetuate crime.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) In a democracy, a leader must be the head teacher, someone eager to respond to doubts and questions and explain the need for and the benefits of a new course.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won’t provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools, or medicine for our clinics.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems  (Oscar Arias Quotes) The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America’s future.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, ‘No,’ and presented a peace plan.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) We seek in Central America not peace alone, not peace to be followed someday by political progress, but peace and democracy, together, indivisible, an end to the shedding of human blood, which is inseparable from an end to the suppression of human rights.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) To demilitarize the country means to make a profound decision. It is not enough to change the name of the armed forces. It is necessary to change the minds of those people who only yesterday wore a military uniform.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to fighting poverty, all of the world’s population would enjoy basic social services, such as education, health care, nutrition, reproductive health, clean water and sanitation.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man’s road to freedom.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) It often seems... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) The children of the world, what they want and what they need are health clinics and schools, not tanks or armed helicopters or fighter jets.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems of the impoverished.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) We may believe in the state’s responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America’s population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one’s soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship  (Oscar Arias Quotes) Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together  (Oscar Arias Quotes) I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone  (Oscar Arias Quotes) We need a force that recognizes that only through development and liberty, through education and health care, through better priorities and wiser investments, can we achieve the stability we seek  (Oscar Arias Quotes) At one time in the history of the Americas, weapons and armies were associated with liberty and independence, and with new opportunities for our peoples. At one time in the history of the Americas, there were liberating armies.  (Oscar Arias Quotes) The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.  (Oscar Arias Quotes)
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