Quotes by Costa Rican authors
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
Former President of Costa Rica
Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
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
Former President of Costa Rica
Our world is certainly dangerous, but it is made more dangerous, not less, by those who value profits over peace.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
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
Former President of Costa Rica
There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that person who tells people what people want to hear, while the statesman tells people what people need to know.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
During my administration, our desire has been to strengthen the civilian spirit of our people. Thus, we have eliminated military ranks and salutes from our civil guard.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
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
Former President of Costa Rica
The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.
Laura Chinchilla
Former President of Costa Rica
I like to build bridges... not walls.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
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
Former President of Costa Rica
Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.
Laura Chinchilla
Former President of Costa Rica
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
Former President of Costa Rica
Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
Laura Chinchilla
Former President of Costa Rica
The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
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
Former President of Costa Rica
There are too many war museums.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
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