Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"The history of mankind is a history of war"

Mike Love, Musician

"It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week"

Will Rogers, Actor

Will Rogers

"Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

Mao Tse-Tung

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other, for the profit of people who know each other, but don't massacre each other"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"War is what happens when language fails"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

Margaret Atwood

"I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us"

Samuel de Champlain, Explorer

Samuel de Champlain

"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for"

Margaret Mitchell, Novelist

"If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn"

Lawrence Korb, Writer

"Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem. Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry"

Mikhail Kutuzov, Soldier

Mikhail Kutuzov

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"You'll live. Only the best get killed"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Know your enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

Sun Tzu

"Elevate those guns a little lower"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"

John Milton, Poet

John Milton

"Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came"

Jefferson Davis, President

Jefferson Davis

"A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten"

Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier

"All war represents a failure of diplomacy"

Tony Benn, Politician

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Democracy don't rule the world, you'd better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Once we have a war, there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

Otto von Bismarck

"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

Joseph Rotblat

"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

Moshe Dayan

"When I jerked it out, the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out"

George Crook, Soldier

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