Democracy Quote by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

These two enormous forces — truth and meaning — are at war in today's world…And something sooner or later has to give.

— Ken Wilber

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as…

— Kirby Page

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You…

— Margaret Thatcher

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

— Wesley Clark

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

— Bob Kerrey

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

— Anonymous

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose…

— Alexander Cockburn

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand…

— Carl von Clausewitz

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that…

— William James

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as…

— Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder

Force is the weapon of the weak.

— Ammon Hennacy