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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

War, State, Tyranny

"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

War, Victory, Dependence, Guidance

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

War, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

George Orwell, British Author

War, Peace, Strength, Freedom

"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."

George Orwell, British Author

War, Evil

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell, British Author

War, Ending

"Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "use it well, use it wisely." We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training."

John Steinbeck, American Author

War, Morality, Killing, Conflict

"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."

John Steinbeck, American Author

War, Sacrifice, Hope, Peace

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

War, Conflict, Opportunity, Survival

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."

Will Rogers, American Actor

War, Diplomacy

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"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."

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"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."

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"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."

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"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."

Patriotism

"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."

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"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."

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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

"There were people who gave everything they had to the war because it was the last war and by winning it we would remove war like a thorn from the flesh of the world and there wouldn't be any more such horrible nonsense."

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."

Explore more quotes by Michael Ignatieff

"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."

"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."

"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."

"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."

"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."

"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."

"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."

"What we want is to become masters in our own house."

"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."

"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."