War Quotes

"To injure your opponent is to manifest a new humanity."

"Violence creates space for new expression."

"Violence is the continuation of politics by other means"

"War is the failure of language"

"War creates refugees, widows, and orphans"

"War is a failure of imagination and a triumph of ignorance."

"Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex."

"The atmosphere of violence which characterizes the period of colonization turns into a de-colonization movement."

"The native fights with the same arms that the colonizer uses against him."

"War is the failure of human imagination and compassion."

"War reveals the hidden violence within civilization."

"War settles nothing but how we respond to it defines our civilization."

"Wars are fought not over resources but over competing fantasies and ideologies."

"The militarization of our world is preventing resources from flowing to where they are needed most."

"War is the normal state of politics."

"Violence is the founding act of every order."

"War reveals the true nature of the state."

"Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction."

"The colonized man will first manifest this aggression which has been deposited in his bones against his own people."

"Racialism and the difficulties and abnormalities which obstruct the course of affairs in the world."

"Spontaneity and improvisation characterize the fighting of the colonized."

"The psychic instability of the colonized is the direct result of the violence inherent to the colonial situation."

"Fundamentally, everything in the colony is a contest."

"War is the method by which empires maintain their dominance."

"War destroys the fabric of becoming."

"War is politics by other means, and politics is war by other means."

"War reveals the failure of all other human endeavors."

"War reveals the fragility of civilization."

"Colonial discourse created not just political control but mental structures"

"Nationalism often masks imperial ambitions"