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“What else should we call the beheading of Samuel Paty a year ago or, say, the policewoman who had her throat slit in her own office? The sixteenth-century wars of religion also started little by little. It took fifty years for the struggle between Protestants and Catholics to erupt on Bartholomew's Night in 1572.”
Éric Zemmour (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With so many wars and conflicts affecting millions of innocent people all around the world, sport has the ability to bring the whole world together in peaceful competition”
Kirsty Coventry (born 1983) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: IOC President welcomes NOC of Palestine to Olympic House,01 October 2025
“Medical research on all manner of diseases, which has made huge advances and is a blessing that promises longer life, receives barely a fifth of what is budgeted for the military. That process, from which we cannot escape, perpetuates hatred, fanaticism and distrust, fuels new wars and wastes fortunes.”
José Mujica (1935–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We don't have children to throw away, we have to protect Serbia. If only we hadn't participated in all the wars of the 20th century, we would be bigger than the Netherlands. We have to try to preserve peace, but not give away what is ours.”
Aleksandar Vučić (born 1970) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vučić at 14th anniversary of the SNS: "Serbia is stronger. Surrender isn't an option." (21 October 2022), B92
“As a tool for social advocacy, poetry is an art that attracts those waging wars on social ills.”
Mmakgosi Anita Tau (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People not only live by symbols, but die by them, as wars of religion and nationalism attest.”
A. C. Grayling (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This administration needs to be shut down immediately. It has forfeited its mandate. They promised no new wars, they promised mass deportations and America first, and we're not getting any of it. So shut it down.”
Nick Fuentes (born 1998) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Far-right Gen Z Influencer Tells Fans to Skip Midterms or Vote Democrat" Newsweek (March 3, 2026)
“The European Union was created to interlink the destinies of the nation states of Europe so that they could no longer engage in the kind of conflict that led, in less than thirty years, to two world wars. The European Union is a project for peace. But even above that, it is a project about freedom. And let me say that Ukraine is Europe.”
Roberta Metsola (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t see why you have the nerve to think that you know better than anyone how to run the world, and who’s marginal in the world and who isn’t. You’ve made so many mistakes, you’ve started so many wars in the last few years, destroyed so many lives, killed so many people, created so many problems.”
Margarita Simonyan (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Normally, cultures don't fight. That is why they are cultures: because they do not wage wars.”
Ivica Osim (1941–2022) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Osim, before leaving from Graz to Japan, asked about the Irak war, and a so called "war of cultures", Normalerweise kämpfen Kulturen nicht, der Standard, 2003-12-19.
“However, it is a contemporary trend to put "materialistic technology" ahead of the "science of the mind". "Increasing greediness in people's hearts has unbalanced the eco-systems, contaminated the environments, caused natural disasters, spread epidemics, induced wars and hence endangered all sentient beings now and in future”
Gyaincain Norbu (born 1990) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Panchen Lama delivers speech in HK" in China Daily (26 April 2012)
“We wanted to build solutions, not do telecoms wars.”
Rapelang Rabana wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A recital of their wars constitutes the largest portion of the history of Christian nations; while the strides that they have made in commerce, in manufactures, and the arts, constitute the least.”
Belva Ann Lockwood (1830–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“my first memory in life was three years old: my dad took me to see Star Wars and it's not just the first movie I remember, it's my first memory. If you ever watch Boondocks, a lot of times it does become more of an action comedy than just a pure comedy. I've always had a passion for all that”
Aaron McGruder (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being from the “Star Wars” generation, trilogies are important to me.”
Liniers (cartoonist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Compulsory military training is conducive to waging wars rather than to the maintenance of peace.”
Rose Pesotta (1896–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our main common task is to broaden resistance to the aggressive offensive of capitalism. To form a united front in support of the countries that come under imperialist pressure. To constantly expose the essence of capitalism which cannot exist without terrorism, wars, crises, destruction of nature and the suffering of millions.”
Gennady Zyuganov (born 1944) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Socialism Is Genuine Freedom" (22 November 2017)
“The form of work for peace which has most obviously made history is the long continued effort to create some form of world organization which should both prevent wars and foster international cooperation.”
Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We don’t believe in your wars, we don’t believe in your customs, and we don’t believe in your Gods.” “Your lives are empty, then.” “The money sort of fills that up—at least that’s what Sergeant Khalor told us.”
David Eddings (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wars are a summer pastime, Althalus. Politics is a year-round entertainment.”
David Eddings (1931–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our motto is serve and protect. We serve the needs of our people and educate them that only through revolution will all our needs be met. Only through organized change will we end addiction, eliminate landlords, build new cooperative housing, provide jobs for all, assure decent health for everyone, end all wars, and achieve independence for Puerto Rico.”
Juan González (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truth is, Republicans have no plan. While they're playing the blame game and waging culture wars, we're keeping our heads in the game, improving our economy and safeguarding Americans' hard-earned freedoms.”
Suzan DelBene (born 1962) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Op-ed: Democrats are better for our country and economy", CNBC.com (October 31, 2022)
“Much more is needed. Including; facilitating a serious nation-wide dialogue that will include the voices of ordinary people, ppl affected by the multiple wars, women, and young people. This dialogue should be an official part of any formal political talks”
Hajer Sharief (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had seen so many cities leveled, so many people killed, and yet so little really changed. That didn’t mean that some wars weren’t worth fighting. It just meant that the goals needed to be more specific and perhaps less idealistic, grounded in the reality of how parts of the world see us and not just the ideal of how we see ourselves.”
Clarissa Ward (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if we had universal suffrage throughout the world, we might not even have wars.”
Alice Paul (1885–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But in reality I know that history is nothing more than the after shock of men’s fears and rages and the wars those two feelings create. It’s a tidal wave that swallows worlds whole and leaves nothing behind. (Chapter 6, p170)”
Linda Hogan (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As for the Indian wars, it seems that the time is far away, but it isn’t. The Wounded Knee massacre took place when my grandmother was seven. And Native people, throughout the world, live with history as part of life in the mind, the heart, every day. We may live in modern America, hold jobs, but history is present. Time is different for us. (2012)”
Linda Hogan (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On people in high positions] They've gone woke, haven't they? They're hypocrites. They want things to be done but they want somebody else to do it. People are saying that I'm stoking the culture wars. Well, I'm not. I'm just fighting back. I'm just saying, shut up.”
Lee Anderson (born 1967) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed in "Lee Anderson: single dad, former miner and Sunak’s secret weapon" The Sunday Times (25 June 2023)
“I that my slender oaten pipe in verse was wont to sound Of woods, and next to that I taught for husbandmen the ground, How fruit unto their greedy lust they might constrain to bring, A work of thanks: Lo now of Mars, and dreadful wars I sing, Of arms, and of the man of Troy, that first by fatal flight Did thence arrive to Lavine land, that now Italia hight.”
Thomas Phaer (1510–1560) said by 1560 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beginning of the first Book of the Aeneidos of Virgil, as quoted in The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Vol. IV (Oxford University Press, 2022), p. 269
“The wars of independence that were fought throughout the African continent and the world beyond the African continent were linked.”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The important contribution of the preventive cultural diplomacy to the security architecture in Europe and in the entire world will be, with no doubt, the one of wars that would have not taken place due to creating a few democratic dialogue mechanisms and to strengthening of the collaboration with the civil society.”
Emil Constantinescu (born 1939) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cultural Diplomacy: Peace and Progress through Understanding the Other" (5 May 2010)
“In our country, as in all others, rape and sexual assault have been interwoven into wars of patriarchal conquest and colonisation, genocide, slavery, apartheid and capitalism. Religious texts justify violence against women and children”
Pregs Govender (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(SDT) offers a... wholistic framework for investigating such... forces that... lead to revolutions, civil wars, and other major outbreaks of socio-political instability.”
Peter Turchin (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[W]e need to translate the general theory into a specific computational model tailored to the focal state. Over the past four decades this has been accomplished for... historical case-studies, ranging from Ancient empires to Early Modern states and nineteenth century’s revolutions and civil wars.”
Peter Turchin (born 1957) first seen 1780 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introduction. Ref: JA Goldstone. Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (1991) Ref: Turchin P. Historical dynamics: why states rise and fall (2003) Ref: Turchin P. "Dynamics of Political Instability in the U…
“Trump looks set to prove a pivotal figure. His unimpeded energy, and wars against the legal-industrial complex offer a glimpse of a style of leadership that is willing to take on the biases and inefficiencies of the system.”
Sherelle Jacobs wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Africa must declare an end to the era of self-inflicted wars and conflicts.”
Goodluck Jonathan (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.”
Sulak Sivaraksa (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They didn’t choose it, the situation, and it’s hard for humans who have to flee for their lives. We start wars. The people who suffer from it come to new countries but nobody has the capacity, or even the will, to help them.”
Caroline Graham Hansen (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We know the feeling of vulnerability. We know what it’s like to live divided and what suffering wars cause.”
Katalin Novák (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God: but the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight (I Chronicles xxii. 7, 8).”
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement written by him more than once and at different times on various scraps of paper, quoted in Lady Frances Balfour, The Life of George, Fourth Earl of Aberdeen, K.G., K.T., Vol. II ([1922]), p. 299
“He had often wondered if there was something deep in the human psyche that insisted on tribalism. People used to fight wars not so much to protect their own life-style but to impose it on others.”
Jack L. Chalker (1944–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Almost half of the world believes in wars. Why not change that and make people believe in poetry? Believe in kindness? Believe in encounters? I think it’s our responsibility to invite others and make them feel like they can transform the world.”
Marjorie Agosín (1955–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“literature is the only way to preserve memory. I mean, it's like the queen, the king of the preservation of memory. You look at monuments—I just saw the monument of [Robert E.] Lee—you look at the monument of Sadaam Hussein is gone, a lot of historical monuments are going to be vanished according to wars, earthquakes. The only thing that remains are words.”
Marjorie Agosín (1955–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I write to get out, to escape from these infinite, useless stories of nothing that are the trials, the wars, the expeditions, the conquests, even the gods: millions of grains of Syriac sand that a wave is enough to sweep them away.”
Roberto Vecchioni (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I finished secondary school, I had the option to go for civil engineering or water and environmental engineering but when I searched the Internet and saw the global wars of climate change, I realised that environmental engineers are the ones able to find solutions and that is how I opted to be an environmental engineer.”
Ineza Umuhoza Grace (born 1996) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How 21-year-old Umuhoza plans to fight climate change The NewTimes, September 27, 2017
“The priestly robe or character, the halo of exile, the fame of eloquence, of doctrine, of austere virtue, the resurgent echoes of the Primacy, all conferred upon him Vincenzo Gioberti, on his pilgrimage [through the cities of the peninsula], as a missus dominicus, an apostle of the holiest of causes, the preacher of the most blessed of the crusades, the peacemaker for the noblest of wars. (p. 8)”
Vittorio Cian (1862–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since the Revolutionary Autumn of 1945, in the spirit of “Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom,” the Vietnamese nation fought valiantly through countless arduous wars, with millions of this land’s outstanding individuals having laid down their lives for national liberation and unification, and for the building and protection of their Fatherland.”
Võ Văn Thưởng (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think the solution to our economic wars and challenges as individual African countries is to take this very seriously.”
Samia Nkrumah (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The technology we have, is probably the most violent act against the planet that we can conceive of, more than the wars on the battlefield. The price we pay for technological happiness is bringing the planet to our knees. It's not something we use, it's as ubiquitous as the air we breathe.”
Godfrey Reggio (born 1940) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: reddit.com r/IAmA forum post, January 2014.
“We need both pacifism and just wars for the good of the land. Wherever and whenever there is adharma, there needs to be himsa.”
Jayendra Saraswathi (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source