Quotes with laws-of-war

Quotes 701 till 720 of 869.

• Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

  Martha Gellhorn
  American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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• Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

  Charles De Montesquieu
  French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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• Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

  Vauvenargues
  French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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• Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

  Bruce Jackson
  American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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• Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
  

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

  Benito Mussolini
  Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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• War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

  Alva Myrdal
  Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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• War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.

  Bruce Sterling
  American science fiction author (1954 - )
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• War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

  Bruce Sterling
  American science fiction author (1954 - )
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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Sir Walter Raleigh
  British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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• War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

  Mao Tse-Tung
  Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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• War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

  Thomas Hobbes
  British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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• War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

  Amy Goodman
  American broadcast journalist, columnist and author (1957 - )
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• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

  Napoleon Hill
  American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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• War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

  Betty Williams
  Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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• War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
  

  Andrew Jackson
  American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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• War is a contagion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• traditionally
• sufficiently
• degradation
• legitimacy
• consisteth
• individual

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