Fear Quote by Victor Davis Hanson

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

— Frederic C. Howe

“Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to…

— Susan Sontag

Sometimes we want to engage in a war for financial reasons, for strategic reasons, for moral reasons, for all sorts of reasons, and it's…

— Rory Kennedy

For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as…

— Rebecca West

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about…

— Adrienne Rich

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany…

— Stonewall Jackson

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or…

— Tom Clancy

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

— Steven Pinker

“Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.”

— Dave Duncan

The cause of war is preparation for war.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

— Simone Weil