Bismarck once said, ‘Preventive war is like committing…

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

— Otto von Bismarck

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but…

— Thomas Browne

“When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide,…

— Adam Hochschild

This was never about motivation, it was about sacrifice. Nor was it about money, it is all about self sacrifice. Putting your body on…

— Jeremy Limn

“…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain,…

— Jean Baudrillard

I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they…

— Kevin Spacey

A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better…

— Gosho Aoyama

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

— Jennifer Stone

And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys…

— Peter Kenyon

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Committing suicide essentially said to friends and loved ones and the world at large that you were the only thing that mattered, that your…

— Christine Warren

“I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people could descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full…

— Bertrand Russell

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.

— Curtis LeMay