Make War Quotes

90 quotes by 70 authors

The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Such force demands an equal response, and Jesus is going to make… — Lou Engle
Heavy as they are, the costs of action must be weighed against the price of inaction. If Saddam defies the world and we fail to… — William J. Clinton
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material. — Ernest Hemingway
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war… — Gregory Maguire
If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each othersâ€™ cities up in the night in pinks and greens. — Yoko Ono
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical… — Aristotle
Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation. — Kurt Vonnegut
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be… — Dale E. Turner
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with… — A. E. Coppard
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all… — Erasmus Darwin
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. — Ulysses S. Grant
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots… — Abbie Hoffman
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. — Henry A. Kissinger
People always make war when they say they love peace. — D. H. Lawrence
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so… — Abraham Lincoln
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. — William Tecumseh Sherman
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. — Simone Weil

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