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War Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
- Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but…
- I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as…
- Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect…
- Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
- Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
- It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the…
- It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
- What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood