Politics And War Quotes

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

Know the enemy and know yourself.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.