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Image of William Goldman
Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
- William Goldman
Collection: War
Image of Hannah Arendt
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
- Hannah Arendt
Collection: War
Image of Martha Gellhorn
From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.
- Martha Gellhorn
Collection: War
Image of Martha Gellhorn
War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
- Martha Gellhorn
Collection: War
Image of Aristotle
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.
- Aristotle
Collection: War
Image of Alan Greenspan
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
- Alan Greenspan
Collection: War
Image of Alan Greenspan
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
- Alan Greenspan
Collection: War
Image of Mark McKinnon
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.
- Mark McKinnon
Collection: War
Image of Stephen Fry
I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.
- Stephen Fry
Collection: War
Image of Charles de Gaulle
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.
- Charles de Gaulle
Collection: War
Image of Chinua Achebe
Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
- Chinua Achebe
Collection: War
Image of Edward Gibbon
The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion . . .
- Edward Gibbon
Collection: War
Image of Edward Gibbon
[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.
- Edward Gibbon
Collection: War
Image of James Lileks
There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.
- James Lileks
Collection: War
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: War
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily exisitance. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: War
Image of Barney Frank
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
- Barney Frank
Collection: War
Image of Paula Fox
A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.
- Paula Fox
Collection: War
Image of Pope Francis
Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.
- Pope Francis
Collection: War
Image of Jonah Goldberg
The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
- Jonah Goldberg
Collection: War
Image of Benjamin Franklin
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: War
Image of Aristotle
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle
Collection: War
Image of Emma Goldman
We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.
- Emma Goldman
Collection: War
Image of Barry Goldwater
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
- Barry Goldwater
Collection: War
Image of Barry Goldwater
When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
- Barry Goldwater
Collection: War
Image of Emma Goldman
The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.
- Emma Goldman
Collection: War
Image of Jane Goodall
Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still comparisons one can draw: chimps fight for their territory; they fight for the resources within that territory, so it does relate in a way.
- Jane Goodall
Collection: War
Image of John Glenn
It was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology. And so it was against that backdrop that the early space flights took off.
- John Glenn
Collection: War
Image of Milton Friedman
As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.
- Milton Friedman
Collection: War
Image of Benjamin Franklin
It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being... Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations... He would take this province under His protection, confound the designs and defeat the attempts of its enemies, and unite our hearts and strengthen our hands in every undertaking that may be for the public good, and for our defense and security in this time of danger.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: War
Image of Benjamin Franklin
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: War
Image of Neil Gaiman
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.
- Neil Gaiman
Collection: War
Image of Che Guevara
We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to disappear.
- Che Guevara
Collection: War
Image of Pope Francis
Violence and war lead only to death.
- Pope Francis
Collection: War
Image of Newt Gingrich
I expect that Trump believes we do not have an obligation to have a Cold War with Russia, but that he is very cautious.
- Newt Gingrich
Collection: War
Image of Pope Francis
War is not to be waged in the name of God.
- Pope Francis
Collection: War
Image of Emma Goldman
We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?
- Emma Goldman
Collection: War
Image of John Glenn
We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.
- John Glenn
Collection: War
Image of Jane Goodall
I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.
- Jane Goodall
Collection: War
Image of John Grisham
You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
- John Grisham
Collection: War
Image of Stephen Jay Gould
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Collection: War
Image of Benjamin Franklin
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: War
Image of Aristophanes
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
- Aristophanes
Collection: War
Image of Jacque Fresco
War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment. Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people.
- Jacque Fresco
Collection: War
Image of Jacque Fresco
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
- Jacque Fresco
Collection: War
Image of Jacque Fresco
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.
- Jacque Fresco
Collection: War
Image of Jacque Fresco
War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.
- Jacque Fresco
Collection: War
Image of Bill Gates
When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.
- Bill Gates
Collection: War
Image of Philippa Gregory
War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
- Philippa Gregory
Collection: War