UN General Assembly
1978

110. Every positive and concrete effort against the arms race meets with opposition from those who wield the old Latin principle "Si vis pacem, para bellum"-"If you desire peace, prepare for war". Today, however, preparing for war has a different goal—not the achievement of peace, but the prevalence of fear, as the means to world equilibrium. This, then, is world peace founded on an act of fear, not on conviction or on an act of conscience. I therefore propose not a military maxim but a human one: "If you desire peace, prepare for peace."