Other Quote by Michael Shellenberger

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or…

— George Orwell

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a…

— Neal Shusterman

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side:…

— Charles Eisenstein

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress…

— Mao Zedong

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

— Charles Sumner

As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.

— Margaret MacMillan

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

— Barbara Tuchman

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

— Newt Gingrich

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

— Germaine Greer

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned…

— Christine de Pizan