Warfare Quotes · Page 5

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

— Dervla Murphy

If nuclear warfare is believed to be somewhat controlled, then climate change is now the greatest threat.

— Graciela Chichilnisky

“A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.”

— Daniel McHugh

“Sin is guerrilla warfare that is deadly. Just when you think you are in control, it seeks to devour you.”

— Ed Welch

“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.”

— James Franck

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

— Ovid

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

— Caleb Carr

Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a…

— Shirley Hibberd

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

— James Crumley

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side.…

— Lester B. Pearson

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem…

— Sun Tzu

“Sure we could replace war with paintball battles. But it would escalate to paint grenades, paint bombs, weapons of mass paint. I…

— Dan Florence

We're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We…

— Hillary Clinton

The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

“The news today about "Atomic bombs" is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3)…

— Sun Tzu

Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of…

— John Quincy Adams

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while…

— John Owen

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to…

— Mao Zedong

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats…

— Franz Kafka

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal…

— Steven Pinker

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane…

— bell hooks

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

— Thomas E. Mann

“Why all this death? You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.”

— Daniel McHugh

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

— Walter E. Williams

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

— Anonymous

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to…

— Randy Thornhorn

We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Bullets do not discriminate. They are equal-opportunity projectiles.”

— Peter Duysings

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt,

— Mark Kurlansky

The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind.

— Kay Arthur

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

— James Forrestal

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

— Cal Thomas

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

— Sun Tzu

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

— Frank Gifford

“Strategic spiritual warfare is war in the spirit with your spiritual man to address the physical problem”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

— Bernard Goldberg