War Quotes

"The state's right to make war flows from the same source as its right to make law."

"The greatest revolutions often merely rearrange the furniture while the room itself remains unchanged."

"War reveals what peace conceals about the structure of society."

"War teaches that peace cannot be imposed but must be constructed."

"A people that no longer wishes to live passes no judgment on those who destroy it."

"The refugee is the precursor of a new form of human homelessness."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means, but politics emerges from the friend-enemy distinction."

"Industrial warfare has transformed but not transcended the political."

"The age of total warfare requires total political mobilization."

"War is merely the continuation of politics by other means."

"War is not aberration from civilization; it is civilization revealing its true nature."

"Wars are not won by those with the greatest conviction, but often by those with the greatest flexibility."

"War is not the continuation of politics by other means. It is the failure of politics."

"The most despotic governments are those which make crime impossible."

"Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in bureaucracy."

"War is the necessary instrument through which history advances toward freedom."

"History moves forward through the clash of opposing forces and interests."

"The enemy is not merely a competitor; the enemy threatens your existence."

"Political enemies need not be morally evil; they are simply opponents to political existence."

"Conflict between groups is not a failure of politics but its essential expression."

"War is what happens when diplomacy fails."

"War is failure dressed in the language of necessity."

"Greed and ambition are the sources of human conflict."

"The state of nature is a state of war"

"War is the domain of uncertainty."

"During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war."

"The natural state of mankind is war."

"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."

"The passions of men are not naturally inclined to peace, but to the contrary."

"Nothing can be more contrary to morality than war"