“There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.”
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“Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.”
“We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.”
“It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.”
“Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.”
“In time of peace prepare for war.”
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”
“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”
“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”
“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.”
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
“War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.”
“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.”
“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.”
“Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.”
“War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.”
“War is the continuation of politics by other means.”
“Politics is the womb in which war develops.”
“War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.”
“I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.”
“Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.”
“In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.”
“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”
“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.”