• The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatic

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 46 votes · 168 reads

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• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.1 · 23 votes · 94 reads

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• The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 99 reads

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• The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 69 reads

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• There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  5.0 · 24 votes · 104 reads

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• There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 180 reads

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• There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  4.1 · 59 votes · 169 reads

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• There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pus

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 13 reads

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• This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.8 · 63 votes · 113 reads

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• Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 123 reads

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• Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 107 reads

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• To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.9 · 53 votes · 90 reads

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• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.1 · 10 votes · 64 reads

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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 Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  4.1 · 50 votes · 170 reads

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• To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 188 reads

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• Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  3.6 · 23 votes · 30 reads

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• War - what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 31 votes · 49 reads

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• War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 59 votes · 127 reads

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• War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.0 · 60 votes · 8 reads

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• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.2 · 6 votes · 66 reads

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• War is a contagion.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.3 · 20 votes · 153 reads

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• War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 148 reads

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• War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 123 reads

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• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.8 · 20 votes · 167 reads

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• War is like love, it always finds a way.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 143 reads

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• War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 136 reads

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• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 114 reads

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• War is the trade of Kings.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 104 reads

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• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 98 reads

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• War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrif

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 28 reads

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• War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.9 · 11 votes · 100 reads

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• War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 139 reads

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• Wars are made to make debt.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.1 · 34 votes · 116 reads

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• We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

  

  Silvio Berlusconi

  PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 140 reads

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• We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 191 reads

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• We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 197 reads

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• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we hav

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.0 · 34 votes · 89 reads

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• Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

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  Gianni Agnelli

  BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 97 reads

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• What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 126 reads

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• When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.6 · 13 votes · 117 reads

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• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enfor

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 61 reads

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• With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 66 reads

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• Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 113 reads

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• You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.3 · 54 votes · 114 reads

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• You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 180 reads

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