Make War Quotes

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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. — Simone Weil
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate. — Alice Walker
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed… — Tim O'Brien
Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose,"… — Sherwood Smith
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so… — Robert A. Heinlein
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of… — Pythagoras
Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the… — Lisa Ann Sandell
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he… — Leo Tolstoy
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs... — H.G. Wells
Have you ever asked yourself,do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? I've seen things, angel. There are guerrilla armies that make little boys… — Laini Taylor
Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? — Laini Taylor
Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and… — John Locke
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must… — Victor Hugo
The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of… — Jack Kornfield
It is easier to make war than to make peace. — Georges Clemenceau
Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of… — Dennis Kucinich
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. — Anne O'Hare McCormick
It is far easier to make war than peace. — Georges Clemenceau
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on. — Robert M. La Follette
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which… — Alva Myrdal

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