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“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been…

— John Keegan

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

— Robert Mugabe

To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that…

— Margaret Thatcher

I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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

— Samora Machel

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

— Mao Zedong

It's east to start a war in any country

— Hermann Goring

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in…

— Antony Beevor

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

— Ian Bremmer

The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

During the Cold War, the West was extremely careful not to allow the gap between the rich and poor to widen too far, first…

— Heinrich August Winkler