War & Conflict Sayings

244 sayings found from 244 authors

The only way to guarantee peace is to be prepared for war.

— J.P. Morgan 1905
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I have always been a fighter.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt 1870
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

— Malcolm X 1964
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Better to die a conqueror than live a beggar.

— Hernan Cortes 1520
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.

— Bobby Fischer 1969
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I'm a very peaceful person. I don't like war.

— Tiny Tim 1979
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I’m gonna f***ing fight Floyd Mayweather. I’m built different.

— Logan Paul 2021
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I have devils inside me that fight me. And I'm my own worst enemy.

— Phil Spector 2007
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The most powerful weapon is the mind.

— Keith Haring 1985
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I want to make a video game where you play as me fighting demons.

— Lil Nas X 2021
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Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

— Sun Yat-sen 1924
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Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.

— Charles Darwin 1859
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All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

— Nikola Tesla 1919
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It is not, that I am an enemy to the practice of inoculation; on the contrary, I am a warm friend to it, and have been so for many years. But I am convinced, that the present mode of conducting it is attended with many disadvantages, and that it may …

— Edward Jenner 1788
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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life—a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously informed with power of recuperation and survival.

— Rachel Carson 1962
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I have never been in any war, but I have seen a good deal of fighting, and I have heard a good deal about fighting, and I have read a good deal about fighting, and I have thought a good deal about fighting.

— Theodore Roosevelt Early 20th Century
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For the nature of man is such, that he is always desirous of new things, and of change; and therefore, if there be no common power to keep him in awe, he will be continually in a state of war.

— Thomas Hobbes 1642
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The development of modern industry has cut from under its feet the very ground on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the…

— Friedrich Engels 1848
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

— Edmund Burke 1775
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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

— Rumi 13th Century
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