War Quotes

"The uprising of the colonized is soaked in blood from its inception."

"Violence alone, violence committed by the people, violence organized and educated by its leaders, makes it possible."

"The struggle will show if flesh and blood makes a good investment for violence."

"War is the state of nature for all social systems"

"War reveals the truth about peace that peace itself must conceal."

"War is politics by other means, but politics is also war by peaceful means."

"The totalitarian state finds in the preparation of war and in war itself a use for all the officers it needs."

"The camp is the space where the exception becomes the rule."

"Violence inheres in the very structures of language and law."

"Fascism is itself the absolute reification of all culture."

"Terror is the realization of the ideological content of totalitarianism."

"War is the health of the state; peace is its permanent crisis."

"Violence is not exceptional to civilization; it is civilization's hidden foundation."

"War begins when people accept the logic of identity."

"Victory requires understanding the nature of the enemy."

"Modern conflict has made the old distinctions obsolete."

"The culture industry does not need to employ overt censorship; the audience has internalized its constraints."

"Suffering has been transformed from an experience into information to be consumed."

"War is not the worst thing that can happen to human beings."

"Fascism emerges from the contradictions of advanced industrial society."

"Revolution is the only form of war and violence which can be justified historically and morally."

"War has become too important a matter to be left to the military."

"The danger of violence lies not only in the immediate harm it inflicts but in its tendency to corrupt those who use it."

"The demand to give up war is equivalent to the demand to give up politics itself."

"Modern warfare has made the old distinctions between combatants and civilians obsolete."

"Pacifism is itself a political position that presupposes a particular view of the enemy."

"The attempt to eliminate the enemy from politics through law merely displaces conflict elsewhere."

"Technology transforms the nature of warfare but does not eliminate the friend-enemy distinction."

"The enemy is not someone to be convinced but someone to be overcome."

"Partisan conflict becomes civil war when both sides claim to represent the legitimate order."