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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.
— Adam Nicolson
War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.
— Otto Von Bismarck
This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
— Charles Kennedy
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war ... suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
— Philip Caputo
The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
War does not ask which of its victims deserves to die and which does not. It is indiscriminate. Innocent as well as guilty fall before it.
— Connie Brockway
The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.
— Evo Morales
In war personal revenge maintains its silence.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
— Henry Kissinger
Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own apples.
— Herta Muller
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
— Barbara Tuchman
Every war has its demons.
— Richard Engel
Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.
— Natan Sharansky
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
War makes its own morals.
— Margaret Bourke-White
The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.
— Elizabeth Samet
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
— Abraham Lincoln
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
— Jefferson Davis
She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.
— Spencer Ellsworth
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
— Norman Finkelstein
Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.
— Harold Holzer
The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.
— Arthur Nicholson
Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
— Mick Jagger
If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.
— Jefferson Davis
War creates its own intensity of hatred ... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.
— Wesley Clark
Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again.
— Paulo Coelho
From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
— Ferdinand Buisson
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.
— Subcomandante Marcos
The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.
— Derek R. Audette
Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
— Madeline Miller
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
— Cormac McCarthy
It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.
— Rebecca Solnit
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
— Victor Hugo
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
— Simone Weil
I won't let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for'em, huh? War feeds its people better.
— Bertolt Brecht
Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.
— Oriana Fallaci
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
— Andre Malraux
The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
— John Ruskin
War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
— George Meade
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
— Ruth Benedict
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
This war that is coming - are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax
— Sara Pennypacker
The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible to get married in peace.
— Dorothy Dunnett
War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
— Charles Lindbergh
A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.
— Phoenix Desmond
The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.
— Karl Kautsky
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!
— Harry Browne
Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.
— Tobias Smollett
Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite.
— Cormac McCarthy
The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war. — Kenneth Kaunda
War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
— Lewis Mumford
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
— James Buchanan
One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.
— Stefan Halper
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
— Lee Myung-bak
We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.
— Kenneth Eade
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
— Mark Twain
Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.
— Pat Conroy
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Life Isnt A Game,Its A War,Always Having To Fight
For What We Believe In. — Official Barbie Michelle
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
— Charles Dickens
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
— Abraham Lincoln
In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
— Tony Blair
The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
— James Anthony Froude
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.
— Karl Marlantes
Prosperous suburbia was one of the end-states of history. Once achieved, only plague, flood, or nuclear war could threaten its grip.
— J.G. Ballard
