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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: War
Image of William Faulkner
War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
- William Faulkner
Collection: War
Image of Stefan Molyneux
The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).
- Stefan Molyneux
Collection: War
Image of Stefan Molyneux
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.
- Stefan Molyneux
Collection: War
Image of Jeanette Winterson
If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.
- Jeanette Winterson
Collection: War
Image of Dan Simmons
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.
- Dan Simmons
Collection: War
Image of Lysander Spooner
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave.
- Lysander Spooner
Collection: War
Image of Erich Segal
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.
- Erich Segal
Collection: War
Image of Ron Paul
Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.
- Ron Paul
Collection: War
Image of Ron Paul
If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.
- Ron Paul
Collection: War
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: War
Image of Ronald Reagan
Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: War
Image of Ronald Reagan
How does it feel to be the 's third choice? Humiliating? You could have thrown a dart. That's how close they were. We had so many excellent candidates.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: War
Image of Ronald Reagan
In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: War
Image of Ludwig von Mises
Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area's citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. That force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: War
Image of Mike Pence
I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.
- Mike Pence
Collection: War
Image of Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.
- Carl Sandburg
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of David Mitchell
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.
- David Mitchell
Collection: War
Image of Guillermo del Toro
I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online, but I play the solo version super fast. My family knows not to interrupt me the day they come out, they know it's a sacred date for me. I think my favorite visually, of all of the Call of Duty games -- even if it's not as sassy and high tech -- is World at War because. That game has some really incredible episodes in Berlin and the Japanese fields. It's really quite arresting for me, visually, and it was very immersive. But I love Modern Warfare, too.
- Guillermo del Toro
Collection: War
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: War
Image of H. G. Wells
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.
- H. G. Wells
Collection: War
Image of George Washington
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude
- George Washington
Collection: War
Image of Henry Rollins
Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.
- Henry Rollins
Collection: War
Image of John Podhoretz
The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.
- John Podhoretz
Collection: War
Image of Thomas Paine
War ought to be no man's wish.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: War
Image of Thomas Paine
On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: War
Image of Mark Twain
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities
- Mark Twain
Collection: War
Image of Ronald Reagan
The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: War
Image of Ronald Reagan
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: War
Image of Nora Roberts
It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war.
- Nora Roberts
Collection: War
Image of J. Michael Straczynski
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.
- J. Michael Straczynski
Collection: War
Image of Baron de Montesquieu
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
- Baron de Montesquieu
Collection: War
Image of Rachel Carson
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
- Rachel Carson
Collection: War
Image of Barack Obama
If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.
- Barack Obama
Collection: War
Image of George Saunders
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us.
- George Saunders
Collection: War
Image of Thomas Paine
In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of Sun Tzu
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: War
Image of George Bernard Shaw
All progress means war with society.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: War
Image of Bertrand Russell
In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: War
Image of Margaret Thatcher
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety, it creates moral dilemmas for you; it requires self-discipline; it imposes great responsibilities; but such is the nature of Man and in such consists his glory and salvation.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: War