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Mahatma Gandhi
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
John Green
Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.
Ernest Hemingway
The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf, "New Republic",
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Zedong
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant
When a war breaks out, people say: It's too stupid; it can't last long. But though the war may well be too stupid, that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
Albert Camus
The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
Conan O'Brien
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway, Notes on the N
The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Cyril Connolly
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
Madeleine Albright
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
Thomas Jefferson