"The cause of war is preparation for war." — W. E. B. Du Bois

"The cause of war is preparation for war."

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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113 Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois has 113 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness…
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the…
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words…
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not…
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause… — Mahmoud Abbas
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the… — Marcus Aurelius
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the… — Irving Babbitt
I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to… — Stephen Baldwin
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child… — William Barclay
Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a… — Roseanne Barr
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. — Dave Barry
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being… — Drew Barrymore
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is… — Scott Adams
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the… — Simone de Beauvoir

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