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Image of Margaret Thatcher
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: War
Image of Margaret Thatcher
Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: War
Image of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Collection: War
Image of Wendell Phillips
A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.
- Wendell Phillips
Collection: War
Image of Wendell Phillips
War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.
- Wendell Phillips
Collection: War
Image of Bill Murray
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
- Bill Murray
Collection: War
Image of Banksy
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
- Banksy
Collection: War
Image of Ruth Benedict
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits
- Ruth Benedict
Collection: War
Image of Ruth Benedict
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
- Ruth Benedict
Collection: War
Image of Benjamin Rush
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.
- Benjamin Rush
Collection: War
Image of Marianne Williamson
You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.
- Marianne Williamson
Collection: War
Image of George Orwell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
- George Orwell
Collection: War
Image of Rick Perry
We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.
- Rick Perry
Collection: War
Image of Laozi
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
- Laozi
Collection: War
Image of Barack Obama
We have to enforce the laws we've already got, make sure that we're keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, those who are mentally ill. I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. And so what I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally.
- Barack Obama
Collection: War
Image of Barack Obama
The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.
- Barack Obama
Collection: War
Image of Madeleine Albright
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.
- Madeleine Albright
Collection: War
Image of Ron Paul
We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.
- Ron Paul
Collection: War
Image of Deborah Tannen
It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.
- Deborah Tannen
Collection: War
Image of Mao Zedong
Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.
- Mao Zedong
Collection: War
Image of Donald Trump
He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren`t captured.
- Donald Trump
Collection: War
Image of Jules Renard
At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
- Jules Renard
Collection: War
Image of John Steinbeck
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
- John Steinbeck
Collection: War
Image of Peace Pilgrim
The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws. The basic conflict is not between nations, it is between two opposing beliefs. The first is that evil can be overcome by more evil, that the end justifies the means. This belief is very prevalent in our world today. It is the war way. It is the official position of every major nation.
- Peace Pilgrim
Collection: War
Image of Peace Pilgrim
The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.
- Peace Pilgrim
Collection: War
Image of Michael Moore
Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.
- Michael Moore
Collection: War
Image of Romola Garai
I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.
- Romola Garai
Collection: War
Image of Condoleezza Rice
This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.
- Condoleezza Rice
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: War
Image of John Milton
O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
- John Milton
Collection: War
Image of Barack Obama
It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it’s also necessary – and you know, to – to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people’s eyes and not just our own.
- Barack Obama
Collection: War
Image of Elie Wiesel
A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.
- Elie Wiesel
Collection: War
Image of Duke of Wellington
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.
- Duke of Wellington
Collection: War
Image of Kiera Cass
Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war
- Kiera Cass
Collection: War
Image of Henry David Thoreau
As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: War
Image of Alexander Payne
Whenever I'm asked about independent cinema, I think of what Fidel Castro said during the Cold War about the league of non-aligned nations. He said that really, there were only two non-aligned nations: the U.S. and the USSR. The rest of us have to be aligned somewhere. I say similarly, in a way, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros. are the only true independents, because they're the only ones who can do whatever they want and have distribution for their films built in.
- Alexander Payne
Collection: War
Image of Leo Tolstoy
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.
- Leo Tolstoy
Collection: War
Image of Sylvia Townsend Warner
Belligerents always abolish war after a war.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Collection: War
Image of Sylvia Townsend Warner
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Collection: War
Image of Wole Soyinka
We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.
- Wole Soyinka
Collection: War
Image of Tom Morello
The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war.
- Tom Morello
Collection: War
Image of Margaret Thatcher
We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: War
Image of Margaret Thatcher
To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: War
Image of Margaret Thatcher
It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: War