War Quotes

Those who fought, those who protested, and those who survived reflect on humanity's darkest impulse.

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"War is what happens when dialogue becomes impossible."
Mares, Edwin
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"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
Correia, Fabrice
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"War is the failure of imagination."
Rosen, Gideon
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"War teaches us the value of peace by showing us its terrible cost."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"War is the failure of every other form of conversation."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"In war, truth is the first casualty."
Smith, Barry
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"War teaches us what peace is worth."
Rosen, Gideon
R
"War is what happens when conversation ends."
Rosen, Gideon
C
"War is a mass murder and those who go along with it are committing a crime."
Chomsky, Noam
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"War is the failure of diplomacy and the triumph of force."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"War is the confession of political failure."
Smith, Barry
S
"War is the ultimate confession of failure."
Smith, Barry
C
"War is a choice made by those with power."
Chomsky, Noam
C
"Violence is often institutionalized and invisible."
Chomsky, Noam
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"War is the failure of diplomacy, and diplomacy is the hope of peace."
Rosen, Gideon
R
"War begins when diplomacy ends and hope departs."
Rosen, Gideon
R
"War is the breakdown of reason; peace is the triumph of understanding."
Rosen, Gideon
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"War is the failure of imagination to solve what violence cannot resolve."
Smith, Barry
S
"War is the ultimate admission that we have failed each other."
Smith, Barry
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Kaplan, David
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"War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
Kaplan, David
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"War is diplomacy that has failed."
Perry, John
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"War is the failure of imagination."
Perry, John
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"War is the continuation of economic policy by violent means."
Chomsky, Noam
C
"War is not an aberration but a logical outcome of systems based on domination."
Chomsky, Noam
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"War is often the failure of imagination to envision a better solution."
Smith, Barry
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"War often reveals our capacity for both the worst and the best in ourselves."
Smith, Barry
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"Manufacturing consent is perhaps the most subtle form of control."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The most powerful propaganda is that which we don't recognize as propaganda."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The assault on rational thought serves specific interests."
Chomsky, Noam