I think Quote by Richard N. Haass

Wars of necessity are essentially unavoidable. They involve the most important national interests, a lack of promising alternatives to the use of force, and…

— Richard N. Haass

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

— Edmund Burke

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that…

— William Safire

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

— Livy

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

— Robert M. Gates

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

— Margaret Mead

War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. ... But…

— Friedrich von Bernhardi

For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven…

— Walter Pater

War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something…

— Steven Erikson

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

— Wesley Clark

Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict.

— Antonio Guterres

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I…

— Abraham Lincoln