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War and its Causes
1. War is the science of destruction
2. There is no such thing as inevitable as war. If war comes it will be from the failure of human wisdom.
3. O War! Thou son of hell!. ( Shakespeare)
4. War never leaves, where it found a nation. (Burke)
5. The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. Norman Schwarzkopf
6. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
7. Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover
8. In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus
9. There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. Ernest Hemingway
10. Only the dead have seen the end of the war. George Santayana
11. You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin
12. It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee
13. All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. Francois Fenelon
14. The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. William Westmoreland
15. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell
16. When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre
17. I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman
18. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu
19. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower
20. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. George S. Patton
21. War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann
22. The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. David Friedman
23. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun Tzu
24. I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. George McGovern
25. If we don't end war, war will end us. H. G. Wells
26. War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. Paul Valery
27. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway
28. The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. Otto von Bismarck
29. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill
30. To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. George Washington
31. If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? Joan Baez
32. War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer. (Jefferson)
33. War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys states; it destroys families, any scour age is preferable to it. (Martin Luther)
34. "The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment." Chris Hedges
35. "The principal cause of war is war itself." C. Wright Mills
36. "We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries." Harry S. Truman
37. "No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need." Zelda Popkin
38. "Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth." Henry Ford
39. "Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war." Peace Pilgrim
40. "According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity." Kenneth Waltz
41. "The cause of war is preparation for war." W. E. B. Du Bois
42. "A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war." Francis Bacon
43. "The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war." B. H. Liddell Hart
44. "We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance, however remote, that we might miss an opportunity to reduce the occurrence of war." Jaron Lanier
45. "The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction." Lester B. Pearson
46. "In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes." Julius Caesar
47. "To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism." Elihu Root
48. "We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war." Albert Einstein
49. "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein
50. "Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war." Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
51. "Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war." Frank Knight
52. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight D. Eisenhower
53. "There never was a good war or a bad revolution." Edward Abbey
54. "Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another." Thomas Merton
55. "A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars." Jerry Pournelle
56. "Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse." Jasper Fforde
57. "If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another." Mahatma Gandhi
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