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The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold. — Niccolo Machiavelli

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering. — Michael Morpurgo

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health. — Sting

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time. — Andy Rooney

War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause. — M.F. Moonzajer

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies. — Stanley Ralph Ross

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end. — Amy Poehler

You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things. — Stefan Sagmeister

What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge. — Sun Tzu

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,
the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will. — Walter Savage Landor

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days. — Saxby Chambliss

I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography. — Henry V. O'Neil

I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil. — Daryl Hannah

Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For? — Jerry Seinfeld

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. — Otto Von Bismarck

Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know?' River Song, A Good Man Goes to War — Cavan Scott

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse. — Terry Pratchett

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu

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

I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, the less clear it was. — Lemony Snicket

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. — Sun Tzu

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good. — Zainab Salbi

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill. — Robert Rhodes James

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first. — William Glasser

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. — Winston Churchill

The first problem of war was that no one was any good at it yet. — Chris Cleave

Good God, girl!" shouted her uncle. "It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War! — Harper Lee

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. — George McGovern

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future. — George S. Patton Jr.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Do you guys ever think about how Hitler has affected the whole world? That just one man did all this? I mean, what if he had been a good man, instead? — Elizabeth Berg

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end. — Chief Joseph

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him. — Henry David Thoreau

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu

It was not,' said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, 'very easy to be good then. — Anthony Doerr

I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet. — Henry V. O'Neil

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win. — Robert A. Heinlein

Because, sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is war! — J.K. Rowling

I don't believe it is good to constantly deify war as if peace, which is the happiness and glory of the world, could be the shame of nations. — Lamartine

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is. — Tim O'Brien

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided. — Patrick Henry

How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. — Jay Grewal

I'm not going to say the war was a good thing. I'm not that much of a sick fuck, but you've got to admit that it did bring people together. — Max Brooks

The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground. — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it. — B.H. Liddell Hart

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. — Martin Lewis Perl

For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and — J.R.R. Tolkien

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace. — Thomas More

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. — Joshua Ferris

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies. — Earl Warren

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time. — John Hay Beith

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days - that was sad. — Rick Riordan

The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years. — Harry Triguboff

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. — Walter Lippmann

There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it! — Bernard Cornwell

War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II. — Dave Barry

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one. — Miyamoto Musashi

Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too. — Thomas Pynchon

War has often been called a game, with good reason. Both have combatants. Both have sides. Both carry the risk of losing. — Samantha Shannon

A good front is half the battle in love or war. — Elbert Hubbard

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! — Aristophanes

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. — Eduardo Galeano

Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times. — Glenda Millard

Isn't the best defense always a good attack? — Ovid

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. — Howard Zinn

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage. — Abraham Lincoln

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence. — Jeffrey Goldberg

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end. — Howard Zinn

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. — Sophocles

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good. — Jacqueline Winspear

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross. — Stonewall Jackson

In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos. — Gabriel Chevallier

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world — Rosa Brooks

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own. — P.C. Cast

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface. — Mahatma Gandhi

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision. — Sun Tzu

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything. — Jennifer Niven

I don't like the word "hero." There are no heroes in war. As soon as someone picks up a weapon, they can no longer be good. They won't be able to. — Svetlana Alexievich

Obviously, we will respond to the concerns of any member of Congress. The government of Uzbekistan has been a good partner in the war on terrorism. — Brian Whitman

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier. — Georgia O'Keeffe

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war ... not a good comparison. — Ken Rosenthal

Those are the bad guys, right?"
"Depends on who wins, I guess. — Shannon A. Thompson

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc De Clapiers

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. — Ursula K. Le Guin

This is war,' I yelled through the door.
Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war. — Janet Evanovich

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. — George H. W. Bush

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves. — Patrick Henry

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. — Herman Wouk

For the good that I would: I do not, but the evil which I would not, I do. — Matthew J. Hefti

But anyone who believes in the war on drugs is missing a crucial point as to why the war can never be won. Feeling good will never go out of style. — Ryan Vanderford

My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war. — Ursula K. Le Guin

[the war in Iraq] could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East — William Kristol

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds. — Harry S. Truman