Politics And War Quotes:

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

- George Washington

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation, Soldiers At War, Inspirational Military

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

- Newt Gingrich

topic: War, Political, Politics, Politics And War

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

- Malcolm X

source: Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Patriotic, Politics And War, Militarism

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

- Hermann Goring

source: Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

topic: Country, Peace, War, Media Manipulation, Media Propaganda

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

- Mao Zedong

topic: War, Politics, Bloodshed, Political Leaders, Chinese Revolution

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

- John Adams

topic: Education, Philosophy, War, Social History, American Revolution

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other ***** die for his.

- George S. Patton

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, War, Soldiers At War, Inspirational Military, Military Force

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Funny, Humorous, Years, War Victory, Going To War

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Life, God, Make Peace Not War, War Of 1812

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

- Hermann Goring

topic: Country, War, Simple, Media Manipulation, Media Propaganda

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

- Sun Tzu

source: Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, CreateSpace

topic: Art, War, Fighting, Wartime, War Strategy

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

- John Adams

topic: Peace, War, History, Politics And War, American War

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

- Anne O'Hare McCormick

topic: Peace, Real, War, Make Peace Not War, International Relations

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

- Sun Tzu

source: Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

topic: Strength, Peace, War, Strategic Management, War Games

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

topic: Peace, Children, Military, Hunger And Poverty, Make Love Not War

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Wisdom, Freedom, Patriotic, Masters And Slaves, Proclamation

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Peace, War, Make Peace Not War, Just War

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

topic: Veterans Day, Peace, War, Causes Of War, War Cry

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

- Omar N. Bradley

source: "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

topic: Anger, Society, Nuclear, International Relations, Brilliance

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

- Sun Tzu

topic: Peace, Fighting, Enemy, Military Leadership, Military Strategy

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.

- Sun Tzu

topic: Inspirational, Art, Fear, Knowing Others, Military History

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

- Hermann Goring

source: Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

topic: Country, War, People, Media Manipulation, Media Propaganda

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

- Robert Rhodes James

source: Robert Rhodes James (1987). “Anthony Eden”

topic: War, Luck, Important, Politics And War

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: War, Son, Agriculture, Politics And War