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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

Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses. — Sara Sheridan

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

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits — Sun Tzu

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

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. — Socrates

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

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former. — Sun Tzu

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

My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the floor and wreckage in its wake. — Mark Slouka

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

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists. — Ron Paul

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

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us. — David Jones

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

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. — Frank Whittle

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

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong. — Lillian Wald

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy

If Midnight's Children is India's One Hundred Years of Solitude, then A Suitable Boy must be its War and Peace. — Whitaker

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

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy. — Sun Tzu

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 devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations. — James Blunt

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

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings. — Jan Smuts

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering. — Aysha Taryam

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 pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time. — Aeschylus

The grand army would soon be upon us, and war with all its attendant horrors."24 — John Desantis

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

Destruction is a man's will,
Nevertheless Prevention is also a man's will,
Its a man's choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. — Babu Rajan

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic. — John Ruskin

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

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. — Robyn Davidson

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism. — Nguyen Cao Ky

Every heart knows its own sorrow and the greatest casualty of war is to be forgotten, — Miguel Reece