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Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie
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You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly
that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is incumbent on every generation
to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would
save one-half the wars of the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually
there would be no wars and no poverty.
I have made myself personally responsible
for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
- Anais Nin
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964)
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Michael Moncur
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
- Thomas Jefferson
We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones
Morality is contraband in war.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
Communism has never come to power in a country
that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
Mankind must put an end to war
before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
Anyone who thinks, must think of
the next war as they would of suicide.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
What counts is not necessarily
the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower quoting Mark Twain
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and
the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
- Benjamin Franklin
When you put on a uniform,
there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
I can not believe that war
is the best solution.
No one won the last war,
and no one will win the next war.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All warfare is based on deception.
- Sun Tzu
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
One of the greatest casualties
of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...
shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
Strike against war, for without you
no battles can be fought!
- Helen Keller
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