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Martin Van Creveld has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to…
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The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation.…
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We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most…
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War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.
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Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing…
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A world without war is not in the cards.
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As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force…
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It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to…
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Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its…
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The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
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Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another…
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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let…
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Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,…
— Hermann Goring
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At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.
— Polly Horvath
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Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those…
— Fredrik Bajer
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Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.
— Fredrik Bajer
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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in…
— Ludwig Quidde
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Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any…
— Ludwig Quidde
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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
— Ludwig Quidde
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It's funny how most activists are pacifists.
— Craig Reucassel
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Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the…
— David Limbaugh
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
— Joan Baez
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Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless…
— Criss Jami
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A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not…
— Adolf Hitler
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