Desire Quote by Anonymous

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of…

— Walter Bagehot

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

— Simone de Beauvoir

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition,…

— Tacitus

“As they have the public society under their care and power, so they have advantage to promote the public interest every way; and if…

— Jonathan Edwards

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power…

— Henry A. Wallace

“All strive for victory. But not all understand what it truly is. To a soldier or pilot on the line, victory is surviving the…

— Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

— William Shakespeare

In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of…

— Edward Gibbon

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

— Aldous Huxley

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

— Simone Weil

“Still, to slaughter fellow-citizens, to betray friends, to be devoid of honour, pity, and religion, cannot be counted as merits, for these are means…

— Niccolò Machiavelli