11 Quotations Found

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.

Author: Steven Wright | Subjects: Life & Society, Military | War | Peace

Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. […] Voice … [ Read more ]

Author: Hermann Goering | Subjects: Life & Society, Military | War | Peace, Politics & Public Policy

But people start to wonder if our politics make sense
When religion is our best excuse for national defense
And when our citizens start saying that our wars are not okay
And Washington keeps telling them God loves the USA
And they teach us history so we can learn from our mistakes
And this generation wants to know how many years it takes
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Author: Griffin House | Subjects: History, Military | War | Peace, Politics & Public Policy, Religion

And I heard some Christians sing, what would Jesus do?
What if you were on the wrong side, would he point the gun at you?
And they read through every word of Matthew, Mark and Luke and John
So they could see if killing was the side that Christ was on

Author: Griffin House | Subjects: Military | War | Peace, Religion

The neglect of the political nature or context of war is a common cause of strategic failures – as well as a common flaw in theories that often contribute to those failures.

Author: H.R. McMaster | Subjects: Military | War | Peace, Politics & Public Policy

War is the continuation of politics with other means.

Author: Carl von Clausewitz | Subjects: Military | War | Peace, Politics & Public Policy

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

Author: Sun Tzu | Subjects: Insight, Military | War | Peace

In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent’s skin. If you don’t understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time.

Author: Tustomu Oshima | Subjects: Military | War | Peace, Personal Improvement

The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.

Author: Thucydides | Subjects: Life & Society, Military | War | Peace, Thought | Inquiry

War is nothing about reason and everything about emotion. If it has logic, it is the mad logic of hell. All of us have some evil: deep in most, indulged by a few, universally released by war. Men sign away everything for this release, uncapping a pot they scarcely know is boiling, and then are haunted ever after.

Author: William Dietrich | Subjects: Life & Society, Military | War | Peace, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Subjects: Military | War | Peace, Relationships