Quotes with war-cry

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• War is a continuation of policy by other means. It is not merely a political act but a real political instrument.

  Carl von Clausewitz
  Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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• War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
  

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• War is a perversion of sex.

  Alan Moore
  English writer (1953 - )
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• War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

  Martin Luther King
  American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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• War is a profane thing.
  

  Norman Schwarzkopf
  American general (1934 - 2012)
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• War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

  Machiavelli
  Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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• War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

  Albert Pike
  American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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• War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

  Joseph Rudyard Kipling
  English writer (1865 - 1936)
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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

  Who Speaks for Man (1953) p. 318

  Norman Cousins
  American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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• War is at its best barbarism.

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  American soldier, businessman, educator and author (1820 - 1891)
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• War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

  Bruce Jackson
  American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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• War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
  

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  American soldier, businessman, educator and author (1820 - 1891)
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• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

  Desiderius Erasmus
  Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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• War is like love, it always finds a way.

  Bertolt Brecht
  German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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• War is like love; it always finds a way.

  Bertolt Brecht
  German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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• War is mainly a catalog of blunders.

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• War Is Merely the Continuation of Policy by Other Means
  We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means.

  On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 24, in the Princeton University Pre

  Carl von Clausewitz
  Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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• War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

  Alva Myrdal
  Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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• War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

  T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

  Carl von Clausewitz
  Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• confrontation
• catastrophes
• preparations
• independent
• employment
• weaponless

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