Top 100 Politics War Quotes
#1. The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith - all three manifestations of delusion - meant even more to gods.
Michael R. Fletcher
#2. This was, I thought, the language of shy men, men too much alone with their reading and their ideas - politics, war, distant countries, tyrants. Men who would bury their heads in such stuff just to avert their eyes from a woman's simple heartache.
Alice McDermott
#3. Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
Graham Greene
#4. You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.
Robert Harris
#5. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover
#6. Rome had freed the Greeks, but on condition that both war and class war should end. Freedom without war was a novel and irksome life for the city-states that made up Hellas; the upper classes yearned to play power politics against neighboring cities, and
Will Durant
#8. Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.
Corinne Maier
#9. In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
George Clooney
#10. Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
Jeff Greenfield
#11. The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
Kim Dotcom
#12. Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause.
Suzy Kassem
#13. Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?
Langston Hughes
#16. Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#17. His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.
Bill Clinton
#18. We can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.
Walter Lippmann
#19. Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.
Vladimir Lenin
#20. War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.
Samuel Moyn
#21. Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#22. Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood.
Tara Janzen
#23. War, like politics, was men's work, and women were supposed to be among its victims, not its perpetrators. Women's loyalty was assumed, regarded as a prime attribute of femininity itself,
Karen Abbott
#24. War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#25. Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.
Anthony Doerr
#26. History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation's spirit can be achieved.
Aysha Taryam
#27. A patriot fights his government for his people whilst a traitor fights his people for his government
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#28. The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.
Marge Piercy
#29. I came into politics because of a real childhood concern about the Cold War. So to me the importance of the nuclear deterrent is actually really ingrained in me.
Andrea Leadsom
#30. Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
Albert Camus
#31. Ideology follows the money."
"Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.
Lawrence Samuels
#32. I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.
David Talbot
#33. There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.
Warren Buffett
#34. Acharya, is war the only solution to political differences?' 'Wise pupil, politics is war without bloodshed and war is simply politics with bloodshed.
Ashwin Sanghi
#35. There is a cruelty that lurks in some men's souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.
Morgan Llywelyn
#36. A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike
#37. I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's 'policy' is benevolent, can you now?
John Le Carre
#38. War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
Phil Klay
#39. All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
Mark Twain
#41. In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
Arthur Henderson
#42. Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston Churchill
#43. I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)
Tim O'Brien
#44. Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.
Dan Wakefield
#45. Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.
Mao Tse-tung
#46. Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind.
H.G.Wells
#47. Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
Toni Morrison
#48. Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.
Giannina Braschi
#49. It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
Patsy Asuncion
#51. At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.
Asghar Farhadi
#52. If newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
Virginia Woolf
#53. Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
Donald Rumsfeld
#54. What I could not support was "a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics".
Barack Obama
#55. Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.
Adrienne Rich
#56. 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 in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.
Piers Morgan
#58. Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions - political, economic,
psychological, military - that aims at the overthrow of the established
authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.
Roger Trinquier
#59. It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked.
Michael D. Weiss
#60. War is a difficult time for everybody - for soldiers on the front and for the people on the road. War takes away from us everything that we know, as we know it. It gives us a blank slate to re-write our lives and for ink it gives us blood.
Preeti Bhonsle
#61. Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich
#62. All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
Walter Benjamin
#63. Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
#64. The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.
Teju Cole
#65. For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.
A.E. Samaan
#66. You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
Ian McKellen
#67. 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
#68. Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq - that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.
Russell Brand
#69. A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
Glenn Greenwald
#70. For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.
John Le Carre
#72. For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commitment to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.
Hans Blix
#73. Is it more important for you to know what happened in the First World War or to memorize other significant dates in history, or is it more important to learn the strategies they used for optimum leadership, success and joyful living?
Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?
Maddy Malhotra
#75. I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill
#76. The Republican Party under Genghis Bush did the devil's work. Bar the sainted Ron Paul, not a dog of a Republican lifted his leg in protest of the unjust war on Iraq.
Ilana Mercer
#77. When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.
Joel Berg
#78. The two most potent post-war orthodoxies
socialist politics and modernist art
have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.
Roger Scruton
#79. As anywhere else, political instability provided an opportunity for local scores to be settled, for personal grievances to be aired, for heroes to be acclaimed and discarded, giving full reign to the fickle fortunes of war.
Charles Emmerson
#80. Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.
Charles S. Weinblatt
#81. A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#82. We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.
Ray Bradbury
#83. Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
Robert Frost
#84. Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I hear the word culture, I pull out the quote commonly attributed to Hermann Goring: When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
Aleksandar Hemon
#85. Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]
Noam Chomsky
#86. They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better the could argue.
Richard Wright
#87. Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
Tariq Ali
#88. It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.
Leonard Woolf
#89. Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.
Bill Maher
#90. In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
Simon Schama
#91. Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
Edward Said
#92. WITHOUT LAUGHTER, WHAT MAN of sense could endure either politics or war?
Mary Renault
#93. What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.
Terry Jones
#94. Remember, my boy, I never fight for the pleasure of wielding weapons. War, for me, is simply politics by other means.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
#95. I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.
Enrique Iglesias
#96. Until all the files are released, former officials and CIA personnel will continue to say or imply that Fidel killed JFK, thus perpetuating the fifty-plus-year Cold War with Cuba
Lamar Waldron
#98. For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#99. Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth
Gore Vidal
#100. Wo Hunger herrscht, ist auf die Dauer kein Friede."
("Where there is hunger, there cannot be lasting peace.)
Speech before the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 1973
Willy Brandt
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