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“Unfortunately, it appeared that she was going to be around when they learned the hard way that interstellar wars of aggression were much easier to lose than to win.”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thought it was great. The best one. Better than The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As an eleven-year-old, after attending a screening of Return of the Jedi with his father, Pierre Trudeau, in 1983
“We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations, as with individuals, our interests, soundly calculated, will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties; and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is taken on its word, when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) said by 1826 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.”
Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Islam made it lawful for a master to have a number of slave-women captured in wars and enjoined that he alone may have sexual relations with them ... Europe abhors this law but at the same gladly allows that most odious form of animalism according to which a man may have illicit relations with any girl coming across him on his way to gratify his animal passions.[”
Muhammad Qutb (1919–2014) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Muhammad Qutb Qutb, Muhammad, Islam, the Misunderstood Religion, Markazi Maktabi Islami, Delhi-6, 1992 p.50
“(Man on television) Man is the hunter. Woman is the civilizing influence, and when women abandon that role, men become (Sylvia) Cranky, and start wars.”
Nicole Hollander (1939–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The alembic of English tolerance has operated by now on the newer arrivals as well. Their sons have taken part in English life, contributed to English achievement, striven for England's betterment, shed their blood in England's wars.”
Cecil Roth (1899–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We, that like foemen meet the past Because we bring the future, know We only fight to achieve at last A great re-union with our foe; Re-union in the truths that stand When all our wars are rolled away; Re-union of the heart and hand And of the prayers wherewith we pray; Re-union in the common needs, The common strivings of mankind; Re-union of our warring creeds In the one God that dwells behind.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.”
Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.”
Jeff Cooper (1920–2006) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeff Cooper in Guns & Ammo magazine, April 1991.
“Our ancestors have fought wars since time. And won them. More than that, we have built societies and held them together. We are the rulers, Gaise. We are the mighty. Remember that tomorrow.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here—we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What of wars we have survived, genocides and hollow costs/holocausts? Have our hopes for humankind like scriptures and mass graves been lost?”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wars and other kinds of murder have their beginning in the hatred of the enemy and in the unwillingness to be patient with evil. Their root is in intemperate self-love and in immoderate affection for temporal possessions. These conflicts are brought into this world because men do not trust the Son of God enough to abide by his commandments.”
Petr Chelčický (1390–1460) said by 1460 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the wars and strifes between tribes, races, nations, from the beginning until now, have been the result of man's effort to govern himself and the world, rather than to submit to the government of God.”
David Lipscomb (1831–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.”
Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Edmund J. Keller (1991) Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic, Indiana University Press, p. 212
“Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.”
Christopher Vokes (1904–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.”
Roger Kahn (1927–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paper money is bad enough, as France learned under the tutelage of the rascal John Law in the early 1700s. The nation was broke, exhausted by foolish wars, and heaped under unbearable debt.”
James Howard Kunstler (born 1948) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The U.S. Business Model Is Collapsing." The Daily Reckoning (March 18, 2023).
“One of the most dangerous phases of self-interest in industry has been the part it has played in bringing about wars between nations.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“::::And on the surface of the ancient home, they die in scores of wars and by legions of plagues, and against the poets’ and prophets’ promises for unity born in fear of doomsday, they fight like Tyrannosaurs raging and ripping the life from each other’s scaly necks while the comet smote the firmament, and murdered the skies to doom them all.”
Malcolm Azania (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am appalled by the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The suffering and pain caused on both sides is a human tragedy. There are too many wars across the world causing immeasurable pain, none of which should be tolerated.”
Ed Sheeran (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wars of religion which are the outcome of fanaticism that prompts and justifies the extermination of aliens of different creeds were practically unknown in Hindu India.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In global warming and pollution we eclipse, in lies and wars to nuclear apocalypse”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Esoteric Magazine, University of British Columbia 2005, p. 28
“The cost in human lives of every armed conflict is staggering, but the economic cost of wars can continue for generations.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A democratic and equitable international order can only flourish in a peaceful environment. With conflict prevention being the overarching raison d’être of the United Nations, the hundreds of wars since 1945 indicate that the Organization must reform in order to live up to its purposes and principles.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why is it that countries which we call strong" are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?”
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anyone who bar-codes their employees isn’t likely to be the forgiving type, and the reflex of long-held obedience through hierarchy is usually enough to overcome fear of a combat death. That’s how you fight wars, after all—with soldiers who are more afraid of stepping out of line than they are of dying on the battlefield.”
Richard Morgan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am more interested in wars of the mind.”
Hortense Calisher (1911–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now...This revolution is inevitable, the people have endured dictatorship, corruption, poverty and unemployment for years and now the whole thing is exploding”
Tawakkol Karman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious influence theory of atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I leveled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.”
Annie Besant (1847–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In wars throughout history, events have generally proved the pre-hostilities calculations of both sides, victor as well as loser, to have been seriously wrong.”
Bernard Brodie (military strategist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're creatures of habit. We lined up for the old Batman and Star Wars films long after they stopped being great, and we'll pay Apple the same courtesy if it loses its mojo.”
Rob Enderle (born 1954) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How many times can Apple bottle lightning? The challenges of staying on top in Digital Trends (8 September 2012)
“Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?”
Edward St. Aubyn (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dangers of allowing foreign ownership of India’s critical infrastructure and foreign control over information flow on that infrastructure cannot be overstated. Especially when the foreign hand has a history of facilitating civil wars and regime changes.”
Rajiv Malhotra (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Conflict defines nations. Enemies justify armies. Wars glorify generals. Without his great enemy to give him purpose and meaning, he will be significantly diminished. He will have to come to terms with us.”
Nick Drake (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It doesn’t matter what our out-dated, hate-filled, prejudicial doctrines and man-made mythologies might have said. There is no such thing as a ‘religion of peace’. Religion only knows how to react violently because they don’t understand reason and have never practiced tolerance. That’s why secular humanist diplomats will be necessary in order to end wars and other violations of human rights.”
Aron Ra (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world before nationalism and democracy was a world of mild wars, small and effective governments, personal freedom, and civilized high culture… Note that, before the coming of nationalist democracy, it was actually not a problem at all for wealthy, high-IQ people to live in the same society as poor, low-IQ people. It worked just fine. The latter served the former.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Was royalism a perfect system? It was not. But if we imagine a world in which the revolutions and civil wars of the last four centuries had never happened, it is hard not to imagine that world as happier, wealthier, freer, more civilized, and more pleasant.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing "Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away" fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way.”
J. J. Abrams (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need only look at the much lower level of anti-Americanism in Vietnam to realize that suffering incurred in wars does not necessarily dictate decades of animosity and fear between peoples. It’s what propaganda does with history — for contemporary political ends — that counts.”
Brian Reynolds Myers (born 1963) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Recent Spate of 'Why North Korea Hates America' Articles" (27 May 2017), Sthele Press
“From the dawn of agriculture.., billions... armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged... wars against diligent ants, furtive roaches, adventurous spiders and misguided beetles that constantly infiltrate the human domicile.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The religious wars between Catholics and Protestants that swept Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are... notorious. ...[T]hey disagreed about the nature of... [Christ's] love.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[[Postmodernism|[P]ostmodernist thinkers]] describe nationalism as a deadly plague that spread... in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, causing wars, oppression, hate and genocide.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The global centre of power shifted to Europe only between 1750 and 1850, when Europeans... in a series of wars... conquered large parts of Asia.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“International wars became rare only after 1945, largely thanks to the new threat of nuclear annihilation.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[L]ooking back from the early 21st century... we can say, "Oh, we know what the answer was. We think we know." It took 200 years of terrible wars, and hundreds of millions... of casualties, and injuries that are not even healed today, to find out how to build a benign . And this was just steam engines!”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“„I'm honoured that I could fight in four wars for your honour, my dear people, for your rights and your freedom.”
Ion Antonescu (1882–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a country (Israel) in which a clear majority of the population, battered by wars and terrorism and heartbreak and frustration, still wants to see negotiations leading to a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and an end to occupation.”
Bradley Burston wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source