UN General Assembly
1965

32. The time is long past for pious platitudes in the cause of peace. Time was, even in this century, when victory in war was considered a desirable objective, not only because it conferred good legal title to ill-gotten territory, but also because it enhanced the prestige of nations and leaders. Genghis Kahn, Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal and Napoleon are good examples throughout the ages of men for whom war, in a sense, secured their place in history. But times have changed and with them the weapons too. I need not remind the Assembly of the terrible potency of the new weapons that are being created and, with this in mind, I am sad that the awful prospect of complete annihilation has not been as yet a sufficient deterrent for man to erase war from his vocabulary and banish it from his thinking. 33. Twenty-five hundred years ago that venerated Sage from the East, Gautama the Buddha, said: