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War


All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell

Before all else, be armed.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Being dead right, won't make you any less dead.
/Murphy's Law/

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Joseph Stalin

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
John Stuart Mill

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
George W. Bush

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
George S. Patton

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Kin Hubbard

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Sun Tzu

To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell

War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Karl Von Clausewitz

What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible.
Daniel Abraham /The Dragon's Path/

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato


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