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War Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I…
- We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.
- Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
- The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.
- In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life;…
- The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
- There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war…
- It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
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