Top 100 War Is Politics Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.
Mao Tse-tung
#4. Politics is economics by other means, and war is politics by other means.
Stan Goff
#6. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong
#7. 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
#9. Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
Jeff Greenfield
#10. The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
Kim Dotcom
#11. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.
Samuel Moyn
#17. War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked.
Michael D. Weiss
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.
Joel Berg
#32. 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
#33. It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.
Leonard Woolf
#34. 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
#35. Remember, my boy, I never fight for the pleasure of wielding weapons. War, for me, is simply politics by other means.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
#36. 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
#37. We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
Fred Hampton
#38. Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori
#40. There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#41. The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.
Derek R. Audette
#42. War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.
Mark McKinnon
#43. Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.
Joan Cusack
#44. Everything is fair and possible in love, war, and politics.
Chandana Roy
#45. All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck
#46. We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
Otto Von Bismarck
#47. War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#48. the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.
Kate Horsley
#49. Just like all people - just want to get on with their lives, and have families, and have a bit of fun and have a decent life. They are not interested in war - no one is, unless you are a professional soldier. Or a politician! And then of course it's your living!
Gerald Scarfe
#50. We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
John Green
#51. To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
George Santayana
#53. Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown
#54. I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.
David Low
#55. It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Mike Norton
#56. As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.
Zarina Bibi
#57. According to Kant's late work on the Principles of Politics (1793), the irreducible problem of the human species is the following: the human being is an animal and thus, to live peacefully with other animals of its kind, absolutely needs a master.
Gregg Lambert
#58. It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Aristotle.
#59. All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.
Sydney Pollack
#60. War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
Norman Finkelstein
#61. On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart - and their solution also lies in the human heart.
Joseph Goldstein
#62. Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [ ... ] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.
Christopher Hitchens
#63. Politics is a dance until the moment it becomes a war.
V.E Schwab
#64. The great error of nearly all studies of war ... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics ...
Simone Weil
#65. War is, in my divine opinion, even worse than politics." "Some say the two are the same, Your Grace." "Nonsense. War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d'oeuvres.
Brandon Sanderson
#66. Every individual is fighting his own war for survival against the system.And system is destroying the sanctity of an individual.
Madhu Vajpayee
#67. Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.
John Howard Yoder
#68. Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.
Sinclair Lewis
#69. Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
Walter Lippmann
#71. Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
Gary Krist
#72. There is a cold war on the go. America and Russia are competing for the hearts and minds of Indians, Iraquies, Nigerians; scholarships to universities are among the inducements they offer.
J.M. Coetzee
#73. In politics and in war, monsters are defined by which side of a fight a man claims. He is still a man to those who share his beliefs, perhaps even a hero. To those that oppose his philosophy, he is a beast, a creature, one of a thousand unspeakable demons clashing over an ideal.
Lee Thomas
#74. We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.
Kermit Roosevelt III
#75. There is no glory in the sacrificing of oneself in the name of imperialism by order of elitist politicians. But this is what our young service members are led to believe.
Aaron B. Powell
#76. I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
Pat Roberts
#78. What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means,
Alasdair MacIntyre
#79. Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom. - Malcom X
Maya Angelou
#80. No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.
Ashly Lorenzana
#81. It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
Karl Popper
#82. Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos."
"To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war."
"Political theory would be fine in a perfect world, but in an uncertain one, it is a dangerous gamble.
L.K. Samuels
#83. Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends
Johnny Flora
#84. I suppose it is the lot of soldiers and Marines to be objectified according to the politics of the day and the mood of the American people about their war.
Phil Klay
#85. The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley
#86. Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.
Terry Pratchett
#87. Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Winston Churchill
#88. Thar is two things that every national crisis is bound to show up: first, a lot o' dum fools in command; second, lot o great commanders in the ranks. An' fortunately before the crisis is over the hull thing is sure set right, and the men is where they oughter be.
Ernest Thompson Seton
#89. Always remember: Business is War.
At the end of the day, the one with access to the best intel wins. This
applies as much to business and politics as it does to the military. Ask
every single billionaire and military or political strategist out there.
They will all confirm that as fact.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#90. Politics is merely war by other means.
-an old Andorian saying
David Mack
#92. Anyone observing U.S. politics in recent years could easily conclude that lying about having sex is a serious offense worthy of impeachment, while lying about taking the country to war is hardly worth mentioning.
Linda McQuaig
#93. 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
#94. The big question about the American depression is not whether war with Germany and Japan ended it. It is why the Depression lasted until that war. From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped to make the Depression Great.
Amity Shlaes
#95. Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.
Robert A. Taft
#96. Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.
Jesse H. Jones
#97. Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.
Mohammad Marandi
#98. Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts.
Jon Krakauer
#99. 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
#100. Aeschylus said, 'In war, truth is the first casualty.' now we can add politics." Captain Hank Bracker
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