Failure Quote by Kanan Makiya

“vital political truth: military victory can be secured only by reconciliation with the defeated. Although most empire-builders in the ancient world”

— Anthony Everitt

“who had fought for the Republic.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“agreement around principles, goals and identity among the conquered is almost always hostile to the victor and carry the seeds of future rebellion.”

— Don Pinnock

“Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing. We lost too…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Our people, our history, our struggle is more than a war, more than a fall, more than a favorite dish, more than one monolithic…

— Bao Phi

“In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary." ( Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13 , 3 May 1919)”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“was fighting the war on a level where it might actually mean something, might have some use, might be a matter of changing people’s…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“War is fought over futile and feudal things. War is not about ideology, no matter how artfully framed, but it’s simply about power and…

— Jarod Kintz

“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to…

— Jim Butcher

“His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.”

— Bill Clinton