QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, General William Westmoreland, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, Allen Dulles, Martin Luther, Albert Einstein, Barbara Tuchman, Winston Churchill, Georges Sorel, John Galsworthy, Ralph Bunche, Malcolm X, Prince Montecuccoli, Ernest Hemingway.

• The military doesn't start wars. The politicians start wars.
  ~General William Westmoreland
  
  
• It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
  ~Sophocles
  
  

• In war, truth is the first casualty.
  ~Aeschylus
  
  
• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
  ~Oscar Wilde
  
  
• Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party...
  ~George Bernard Shaw
  
  
• "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober."
  ~G. K. Chesterton
  
  
• At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
  ~Allen Dulles
  
  
• War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
  ~Martin Luther
  
  
• How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
  ~Albert Einstein
  
  
• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
  ~Barbara Tuchman
  
  
• War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
  ~Winston Churchill
  
  
• Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.
  ~Georges Sorel
  
  
• We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
  ~John Galsworthy
  
  
• There are no warlike people--just warlike leaders.
  ~Ralph Bunche
  
  
• You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.
  ~Malcolm X
  
  
• To wage war, you need first of all money; second, you need money, and third, you also need money.
  ~Prince Montecuccoli
  
  
• You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
  ~Ernest Hemingway
  
  

 

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