951 private quotes tagged war

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

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“War is a profane thing.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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

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

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“The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.” — Robert E. Lee

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“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.” — Virginia Woolf

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“We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.” — Golda Meir

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“War is a defeat for humanity.” — Pope John Paul II

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“It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.” — Chief Joseph

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“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.” — Thucydides

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“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover

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“Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.” — Benjamin Carson

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“Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.” — Karl Kraus

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“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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