Wars Quotes

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Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance,… — Stephen Kinzer
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them. — Stephen Kinzer
While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for… — Brendan Sexton III
Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies. — John Prendergast
Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict… — John Prendergast
I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we… — Ivica Dacic
Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing… — Nancy Gibbs
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. — Nancy Gibbs
The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to… — Nick Turse
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the… — Elie Ducommun
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote… — Elie Ducommun
It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies… — Jean Giraudoux
Little wars start big wars. — Michael McCaul
I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of… — Gary Johnson
Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center… — Adam Hamilton
Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims. — King Felipe VI
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way… — Fred Woodworth
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars. — Anwar Sadat
America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We… — Christopher Bond
The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil… — Ron Paul

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