Best Quotes and speeches on War, Conflict and Hatred
- After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.
― Brooks Atkinson - After victory, you have more enemies.
― Cicero - All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
― Alexis de Tocqueville - Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
― Abraham Lincoln - And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
― Alcuin - Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
― Aesop - Anybody who hates dogs and loves whiskey can’t be all bad.
― W.C Fields - Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Are you joining the army? Good! It’ll make a woman of you.
― Joe Orton - At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords, we are all generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
― Sir Peter Ustinov - Because a man has a black face and a different religion from our own, there is no reason why he should be treated as a brute.
― King Edward vii - Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
― From “City of God” (St. Augustine’s) - Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.
― Bruce Springsteen - Calamity, calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others
― Ambrose Bierce - Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?
― Blaise Pascal - Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
― Henry Brooks Adams - Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism which equates the national honor with military victory.
― Col. James A. Donovan - Coercive practices that threaten our neighbors also threaten us.
― Butler Shaffer - Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
― Ayn Rand - Don’t ask why someone keeps hurting you. Ask yourself why you’re allowing them.
― Anonymous
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