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I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.
— Oscar Arias
There are too many war museums.
— Oscar Arias
Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.
— Oscar Arias
Peace is a never ending process ... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
— Oscar Arias Sanchez
I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.
— Oscar Arias
Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.
— Oscar Arias
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
It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
— Oscar Arias
Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.
— Oscar Arias
I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.
— Oscar Arias
Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.
— Oscar Arias
I think it's in the hands of each head of state: the future of peace in his own country.
— 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 America.
— Oscar Arias
Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.
— Oscar Arias
Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.
— Oscar Arias
The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.
— Oscar Arias
I like to build bridges ... not walls.
— Oscar Arias Sanchez
Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.
— Oscar Arias
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
— Oscar Arias
If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace.
— Oscar Arias
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
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
Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.
— Oscar Arias
The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.
— Oscar Arias
Our world is certainly dangerous, but it is made more dangerous, not less, by those who value profits over peace.
— Oscar Arias