Quotes with laws-of-war

Quotes 301 till 320 of 869.

  • Douglas Macarthur In war there is no substitute for victory.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Winston Churchill In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Julius Caesar In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz In war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Jose Narosky In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
    Jose Narosky
    Argentinian writer (1930 - )
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  • C. L. R. James In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Leon Trotsky Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Barbara Boxer Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Brigham Young Is there war in our religion? No; neither war nor bloodshed. Yet our enemies cry out bloodshed, and oh, what dreadful men these Mormons are, and those Danites! how they slay and kill! Such is all nonsense and folly in the extreme. The wicked slay the wicked, and they will lay it on the Saints.
    Danites Journal of Discourses, 12:30 (Apr. 7 1867)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Mae West It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Blanche Lincoln It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Campbell Brown It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Thomas Malthus It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Mary McCarthy It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Karl Marx It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • John F. Kennedy It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Henry Kissinger It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Arthur Henderson It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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