Adam Hochschild Quotes, War Quotes, Lying Quotes

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

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We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island.

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

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I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute.

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When diplomacy ends, War begins.

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When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.

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If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.

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My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

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To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

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Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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