951 private quotes tagged war

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“In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.”— Thomas Aquinas
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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 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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“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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“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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“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”— Julius Caesar
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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 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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“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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“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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“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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“All war is deception.”— Sun Tzu
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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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“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 supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”— Sun Tzu
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“I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.”— Thomas Jefferson