QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, eneral Smedley Butler, Simone Weil, Abraham Lincoln, General William Westmoreland, James Madison, Marcus Aurelius, Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps, John Milton, Mahatma Gandhi, Marquis de Sade, Benjamin Franklin, Plato, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Sigmund Freud, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Hobbes.

• War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
  ~General Smedley Butler
  
  
• 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
  
  

• Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
  ~Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• War is fear cloaked in courage.
  ~General William Westmoreland
  
  
• Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
  ~James Madison
  
  
• The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
  ~Marcus Aurelius
  
  
• The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.
  ~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
  
  
• For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
  ~John Milton
  
  
• Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
  ~Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
  ~Marquis de Sade
  
  
• There never was a good war or a bad peace.
  ~Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
  ~Plato
  
  
• The more laws, the less justice.
  ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
  
  
• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
  ~Sigmund Freud
  
  
• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
  ~Thomas Hobbes
  
  

 

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