951 private quotes tagged war

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

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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” — H. L. Mencken

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

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“War settles nothing.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” — Sun Tzu

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

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

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

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

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“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.” — Aldous Huxley

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“War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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