--- title: "12 War Quotes By Anne Applebaum" description: "12 War quotes by Anne Applebaum. Plus more from Anne Applebaum and more War sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc1/anne-applebaum-2544_battle_politics-in-slovakia-had-long-been-a-bat_183829.png" --- > [Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/politics-in-slovakia-had-long-been-a-battle-between-egotistical-men/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc1/anne-applebaum-2544_battle_politics-in-slovakia-had-long-been-a-bat_183829.png) > [nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/nothing-happens-in-august-except-when-something-really-happens-in/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/anne-applebaum-2544_als_nothing-happens-in-august-except-when-so_2249968.jpg) > [There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/there-s-no-checklist-of-how-democracies-fail-because-they-fail-in/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/anne-applebaum-2544_civil-war_there-s-no-checklist-of-how-democracies_3042228.png) > [Putin discovered that when he invaded Ukraine, he expected the Ukrainians to rise up and join him and say, "Yes, we want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/putin-discovered-that-when-he-invaded-ukraine-he-expected-the/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/anne-applebaum-2544_russia_putin-discovered-that-when-he-invaded-uk_3200063.jpg) > [The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/the-old-battle-between-christian-democrats-and-social-democrats-is/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b14/anne-applebaum-2544_battle_the-old-battle-between-christian-democra_2517411.jpg) > [Global pandemics, cyberwarfare, information warfare - these are threats that require highly motivated, highly educated bureaucrats; a national health-care system that covers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/global-pandemics-cyberwarfare-information-warfare-these-are-threats/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ae/anne-applebaum-2544_education_global-pandemics-cyberwarfare-informatio_1060254.png) > [I don't want to predict calamity. But I am afraid of a new Russian occupation of parts of Eastern Europe. Also of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/i-don-t-want-to-predict-calamity-but-i-am-afraid-of-a-new-russian/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/247/anne-applebaum-2544_calamity_i-don-t-want-to-predict-calamity-but-i-a_3112447.jpg) > [Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/until-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-isolationism-was-an-important-even/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/anne-applebaum-2544_future_until-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-isolati_62429.png) > [Back from 2001 to 2003, I wrote multiple editorials for The Washington Post about biological warfare and pandemic preparedness - issues that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/back-from-2001-to-2003-i-wrote-multiple-editorials-for-the-washington/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e90/anne-applebaum-2544_back_back-from-2001-to-2003-i-wrote-multiple_2159197.jpg) > [Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/though-the-poorest-americans-voted-for-hillary-clinton-many/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/764/anne-applebaum-2544_america_though-the-poorest-americans-voted-for-h_1887603.png) > [Putin has made life difficult for a lot of Russia's richest men; they don't like the sanctions; they don't like the war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/putin-has-made-life-difficult-for-a-lot-of-russia-s-richest-men-they/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8e/anne-applebaum-2544_being-unhappy_putin-has-made-life-difficult-for-a-lot_1005775.jpg) > [The world has always been a dangerous place. Now it is dangerous in a different way, because the world order that we've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/the-world-has-always-been-a-dangerous-place-now-it-is-dangerous-in-a/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/101/anne-applebaum-2544_cold_the-world-has-always-been-a-dangerous-pl_250894.png) ## Other authors on War - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sun-tzu-87907.jpg) Sun Tzu 409 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/sun-tzu/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-winston-churchill-96197.jpg) Winston Churchill 171 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/winston-churchill/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 162 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-napoleon-bonaparte-70192.jpg) Napoleon Bonaparte 159 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/napoleon-bonaparte/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 152 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kurt-vonnegut-58049.jpg) Kurt Vonnegut 129 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/kurt-vonnegut/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-orwell-37887.jpg) George Orwell 125 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/george-orwell/) - [Abraham Lincoln 123 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/abraham-lincoln/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. Bush 116 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/george-w-bush/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-niccolo-machiavelli-70986.jpg) Niccolo Machiavelli 109 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/niccolo-machiavelli/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dwight-d-eisenhower-30965.jpg) Dwight D. Eisenhower 99 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/dwight-d-eisenhower/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-carl-von-clausewitz-21011.jpg) Carl von Clausewitz 98 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/carl-von-clausewitz/) ## More by Anne Applebaum > [Quite a lot has been written, including by me, about the effect of social media on politics, and in particular the way in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/quite-a-lot-has-been-written-including-by-me-about-the-effect-of/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [After Trump became president, it was really too late to investigate his dodgy investments in Azerbaijan or his links to Russian money laundering. Those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/after-trump-became-president-it-was-really-too-late-to-investigate/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [If Reagan and John Paul II were linked by anything, it was a grand, ambitious, and generous idea of Western political civilization, one in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/if-reagan-and-john-paul-ii-were-linked-by-anything-it-was-a-grand/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/until-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-isolationism-was-an-important-even/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/the-u-s-s-r-was-a-totalitarian-state-in-which-judges-and-prosecutors/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/one-knows-of-course-that-donald-trump-behaves-differently-from-the/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [As a nation, we are not good at long-term planning, and no wonder: Our political system insists that every president be allowed to appoint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/as-a-nation-we-are-not-good-at-long-term-planning-and-no-wonder-our/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/amazingly-quite-a-few-people-even-some-american-conservatives-are/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/like-wealth-or-health-political-freedom-may-simply-be-something-that/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/unlike-most-european-countries-the-police-in-the-us-are-decentralized/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [The hard truth is that Trump was not exceptional. He was just another amoral Western businessman, one of many whom the ex-KGB elite have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/the-hard-truth-is-that-trump-was-not-exceptional-he-was-just-another/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/politics-in-slovakia-had-long-been-a-battle-between-egotistical-men/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [European security may now depend on Germany, France, Britain and one or two others, and it's better to start planning now for the possibility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/european-security-may-now-depend-on-germany-france-britain-and-one-or/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [Americans might not want to intervene in the outside world, but the outside world will still want to intervene in America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/americans-might-not-want-to-intervene-in-the-outside-world-but-the/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) > [Romney was an excellent businessman with a strong record as a public servant - whereas Trump inherited wealth, went bankrupt more than once, created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/romney-was-an-excellent-businessman-with-a-strong-record-as-a-public/) [Anne Applebaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-applebaum/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/anne-applebaum/#itemlist", "name": "12 War Quotes By Anne Applebaum", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. 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Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Applebaum" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/there-s-no-checklist-of-how-democracies-fail-because-they-fail-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/anne-applebaum-2544_civil-war_there-s-no-checklist-of-how-democracies_3042228.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/anne-applebaum-2544_civil-war_there-s-no-checklist-of-how-democracies_3042228.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52c/anne-applebaum-2544_civil-war_there-s-no-checklist-of-how-democracies_3042228.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. 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And they've been paying, actually, I think quite a high price for it, both in the ongoing war in Ukraine - which is I think increasingly unpopular in Russia - and also in the Western sanctions, and in general, the separation from the West that was caused by that.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Applebaum" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/putin-discovered-that-when-he-invaded-ukraine-he-expected-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/anne-applebaum-2544_russia_putin-discovered-that-when-he-invaded-uk_3200063.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/anne-applebaum-2544_russia_putin-discovered-that-when-he-invaded-uk_3200063.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/anne-applebaum-2544_russia_putin-discovered-that-when-he-invaded-uk_3200063.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Putin discovered that when he invaded Ukraine, he expected the Ukrainians to rise up and join him and say…” — Anne Applebaum", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties, the church and the unions, have faded away. 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But I am afraid of a new Russian occupation of parts of Eastern Europe. Also of a new Russian campaign to exert influence in Germany or other parts Europe, aimed at making continental politics less democratic. I am afraid of a US trade war and even a shooting war with China.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Applebaum" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/i-don-t-want-to-predict-calamity-but-i-am-afraid-of-a-new-russian/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/247/anne-applebaum-2544_calamity_i-don-t-want-to-predict-calamity-but-i-a_3112447.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/247/anne-applebaum-2544_calamity_i-don-t-want-to-predict-calamity-but-i-a_3112447.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/247/anne-applebaum-2544_calamity_i-don-t-want-to-predict-calamity-but-i-a_3112447.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't want to predict calamity. 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After the Second World War, this strand disappeared, smothered by the widespread and bipartisan conviction that the United States needed to stay engaged with the world to prevent future crises.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Applebaum" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-applebaum/until-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-isolationism-was-an-important-even/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/anne-applebaum-2544_future_until-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-isolati_62429.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/anne-applebaum-2544_future_until-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-isolati_62429.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/581/anne-applebaum-2544_future_until-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor-isolati_62429.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics…” — Anne Applebaum", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Back from 2001 to 2003, I wrote multiple editorials for The Washington Post about biological warfare and pandemic preparedness - issues that were at the top of everyone's agenda in the wake of 9/11 and the brief anthrax scare. 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