War Quotes

'This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.'

~Plato

'Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?'

~Blaise Pascal

'Force always attracts men of low morality.'

~Albert Einstein

'Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'

~Albert Einstein

'What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.'

~Leo Tolstoy

'The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.'

~Leo Tolstoy

'We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening...'

~Leo Tolstoy

'In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.'

~Leo Tolstoy

'Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.'

~H.L. Mencken

'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'

~H. L. Mencken

'Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.'

~Sir Peter Ustinov

'The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.'

~Marie Beyle

'Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with...'

~Gerard K. O'Neill

'War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.'

~General Smedley Butler

'After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.'

~Jeanette Winterson

'Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.'

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.'

~Tacitus

'I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.'

~Thucydides

'It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.'

~Albert Camus

'Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.'

~Noam Chomsky

'War is the unfolding of miscalculations.'

~Barbara Tuchman

'Dulce bellum inexpertis (War is delightful to the inexperienced).'

~Erasmus

'War is not a word, it's an acronym for "Wasting Another's Resources."'

~Ramman Kenoun

'A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over...is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.'

~G. K. Chesterton

'Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.'

~George Washington

(Stolen from here, where there are many more.)

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