951 private quotes tagged war

“All oppression creates a state of war.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.” — Will Durant

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“When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?” — Joan Baez

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“It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.” — Robert E. Lee

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“I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.” — Fidel Castro

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“There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“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

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“The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.” — Marjane Satrapi

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“I'm against all war.” — Puff Daddy

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“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“It is not only the living who are killed in war.” — Isaac Asimov

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“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.” — Robert E. Lee

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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” — Otto von Bismarck

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“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” — Euripides

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“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” — Carly Simon

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“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” — David Friedman

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“A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.” — Chief Joseph

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“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.” — Salvador Dali

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