War Quotes
Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.
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"War is the failure of human cooperation and imagination."Peter Kropotkin
"War enriches the few while impoverishing the many."Peter Kropotkin
"The sword is the last argument of kings, but it should never be the first argument of nations."José de San Martín
"The strength of an army lies not in its numbers, but in its resolve."José de San Martín
"A soldier without discipline is a vagabond; a people without laws is a mob."Simón Bolívar
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Antonio Gramsci
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Friedrich Engels
"Wars are the harvest of kings and the scourge of common people."Michel Bakunin
"No real change has ever taken place without bloodshed."Emma Goldman
"Wars are fought by the poor to enrich the powerful."Peter Kropotkin
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."Karl Marx
"The war of position is the struggle for cultural domination and ideological hegemony."Antonio Gramsci
"War arises from economic competition and the struggle for resources."Friedrich Engels
"Revolution by the sword will always create a new tyranny."Michel Bakunin
"War is organized death for national pride."Michel Bakunin
"War enriches leaders while impoverishing nations."Michel Bakunin
"War is the failure of everything else"Emma Goldman
"The enemies of freedom wear many faces and speak many tongues."Simón Bolívar
"Violence is not only a physical act; it is embedded in systems of thought and language."Michel Foucault
"War is the final argument of governments that have failed their people."Peter Kropotkin
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps."Karl Marx
"The more a society develops, the more it perfects the means of warfare."Friedrich Engels
"War is the continuation of economics by other means."Friedrich Engels
"War is the failure of political wisdom and human compassion."Michel Bakunin
"War perpetuates cycles of violence that destroy civilization."Michel Bakunin
"History shows that every new force must fight for hegemony through both cultural and political means."Antonio Gramsci
"War is the greatest evil that mankind has invented."Emma Goldman
"Wars are the continuation of politics by other means transformed into economics."Friedrich Engels
"Wars arise from economic competition disguised as ideological struggle."Friedrich Engels
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps."Karl Marx