war Quotes

“The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife, no more shall cut his master.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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“All other trades are contained in that of war.”

― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

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“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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“It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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“This notwithstanding, I will not undertake war, until I have first tried all the ways and means of peace: that I resolve upon.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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“WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“All’s fair in love and war”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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“It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“Force, and Fraud, are in warre the two Cardinall vertues.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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