Causes Quote by Cat Stevens

The principal cause of war is war itself.

— C. Wright Mills

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

— Robert Ludlum

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

— John le Carre

The cause of war is preparation for war.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

— Bill Ayers

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

— Mark Kurlansky

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

— Germaine Greer

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

— Donald Tusk

The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

— George W. Bush

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of…

— Geoff Mulgan