Wars Quotes

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God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men… — Bob Riley
I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them. — Cat Stevens
When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had… — Jehan Sadat
Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or… — Joseph Campbell
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,… — Will Durant
How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our… — Christiaan Huygens
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals. — Carl von Clausewitz
People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and… — Robert Anton Wilson
Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice. — Tawakkol Karman
The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible. — Liu Xiaobo
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is… — Edwin Way Teale
The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you… — Alexandra Fuller
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — A J P Taylor
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse. — Jacque Fresco
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no… — Camilla Lackberg
Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over. — Heather Mills
All interstate wars intensify aggression â€“ maximize it â€¦ some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust,… — Murray Rothbard
The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they… — Pete Hamill
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire… — Sallust

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