Believe Quote by Neal Shusterman

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

— Neal Shusterman

“We lie to others in order to convince ourselves”

— Ela Crain

If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.

— Julian Assange

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

— Carol Grace

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

— Margaret Deland

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 a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better…

— M. F. K. Fisher

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear…

— Ruth Benedict

“Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which…

— David Livingstone Smith

War is based on deception.

— Sun Tzu

It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without betraying the sacrifice of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

— Byron Katie