Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war. — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war. — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. — James Madison Copy Share Image
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves… — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Copy Share Image
We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
