951 private quotes tagged war

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” — Albert Einstein

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“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

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“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.” — Winston Churchill

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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” — Sun Tzu

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“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.” — Julius Caesar

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“It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire

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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.” — Martin Luther

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“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.” — Sun Tzu

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“I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.” — John Wooden

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“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” — Woody Allen

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“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“All war is deception.” — Sun Tzu

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“War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.” — Albert Einstein

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“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.” — Will Rogers

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“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.” — Thomas Paine

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“War settles nothing.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.” — John F. Kennedy

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“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other b-----d die for his.” — George S. Patton

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“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” — John F. Kennedy

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