QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Elias Canetti, German proverb, Lt. Gen. James Mattis, USMC, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Hannah Arendt, Ramman Kenoun, Frank Chodorov, Thomas Paine, Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, Erich Maria Remarque, Gregory Bateson, Henry T. Laurency, Pope John Paul II, St. Augustine, William Shakespeare, Dr. Ivan Eland.

• Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
  ~Elias Canetti
  
  
• A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
  ~German proverb
  
  

• It's quite fun to fight 'em, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.
  ~Lt. Gen. James Mattis, USMC
  
  
• Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
  ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
  
• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
  ~Hannah Arendt
  
  
• Conflict is the criminals' paradise; it is the only time when killing is allowed, theft is tolerated, and rape is forgiven.
  ~Ramman Kenoun
  
  
• All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
  ~Frank Chodorov
  
  
• War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.
  ~Thomas Paine
  
  
• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
  ~Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
  
  
• A hospital alone shows what war is.
  ~Erich Maria Remarque
  
  
• Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
  ~Gregory Bateson
  
  
• It is for us to refuse loyalty when injustice holds sway.
  ~Henry T. Laurency (from "The Philosopher's Stone")
  
  
• War is a defeat for humanity.
  ~Pope John Paul II (from 1/1/2000)
  
  
• When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.
  ~St. Augustine (From "The City of God")
  
  
• O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength! But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
  ~William Shakespeare (from "Measure for Measure," Act II, Scn. ii)
  
  
• The best defense is no offense.
  ~Dr. Ivan Eland
  
  

 

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