Ambition Quote by B. H. Liddell Hart

According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of…

— Kenneth Waltz

For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although…

— Gwynne Dyer

Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.

— Samora Machel

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

— A. J. P. Taylor

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

— Henry Giroux

The principal cause of war is war itself.

— C. Wright Mills

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate…

— Lewis H. Lapham

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

— Dennis Weaver

The combat of WAR and an economic WAR have a lot of similarities. You do have to be skilled, aggressive, know your enemy and…

— Richard Marcinko

War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever,…

— Mark Kingwell

Very few people choose war. They choose selfishness and the result was war.

— David Dellinger