951 private quotes tagged war

“War is the business of barbarians.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.” — H. L. Mencken

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“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.” — Bertrand Russell

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“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.” — Sun Tzu

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“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” — George Washington

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“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” — Albert Einstein

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“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!” — Helen Keller

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“War itself is the enemy of the human race.” — Howard Zinn

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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.” — Winston Churchill

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“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.” — E. B. White

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“The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.” — George Orwell

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“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.” — Carl Sandburg

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