Cases Quote by Arthur Balfour Download Open image “There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.” — Arthur Balfour ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cases Plenty War
War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start. — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy. — Alfred Hermann Fried Copy Share Image
Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided. — Philip Bobbitt Copy Share Image
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
“We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image