War & Violence Sayings

197 sayings found from 197 authors

The United States is a leading terrorist state.

— Noam Chomsky 1992
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Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

— Hannah Arendt 1963
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary to kill off nine-tenths of the present population.

— Bertrand Russell 1952
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The general who has no skill in strategy will be defeated.

— Sun Tzu c. 5th Century BC
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No state is ever well established unless it has a good army.

— Machiavelli 1531
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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

— Thomas Paine 1794
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For the colonized subject, objectivity is always a weapon directed against him.

— Frantz Fanon 1952
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The intellectual's greatest weapon is language, the power to articulate, to persuade, to inspire.

— Edward Said 1994
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It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them.

— Alexander Fleming 1945
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The true terrorist is the one who thinks he is fighting terrorism.

— Slavoj Zizek 2000s
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The greatest weapon against injustice is organized love.

— Cornel West 1990s
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The greatest challenges of the 21st century will be ecological collapse, nuclear war, and technological disruption.

— Yuval Noah Harari 2018
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The web is now more a weapon than a tool.

— Tim Berners-Lee 2020
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The blood in the animal body is impelled in a circle, and is in a state of ceaseless motion.

— William Harvey 1628
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I've always been afraid of love because I've seen too many people destroyed by it.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez Uncertain
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Nonsense. The only thing they can do to you is kill you. And then your spirit is free. So don't be afraid. Fear of death is the greatest evil.

— Toni Morrison 1987
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The West has been systematically destroying the culture of the East, and it is a matter of shame that we have allowed it to happen.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1941
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The greatest weapon against injustice is the truth.

— Chinua Achebe late 20th century
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Doctors are just like lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers only rob you, doctors rob you and then kill you.

— Anton Chekhov c. 1880s
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We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature.

— Rachel Carson 1956
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