War & Conflict Sayings

War is a crime, but it is a necessary crime.

The working class must conquer power, and it must do so by force.

The greatest danger threatening us is not that of being defeated, but that of being corrupted.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The press is the enemy.

The only way to conquer a nation is to make it free.

My choice in 1944 was not my own. I was drafted. It was just as much a draft as if I had been drafted into the Army.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war!

The plow marks the furrow, but the sword defends it.

I am a simple soldier, but I have a mission.

We didn't come here to live in peace. We came here to conquer.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative.

I regret the outbreak of the war and the suffering it caused. I wish that such a thing had not happened.

Ignorance is the greatest enemy of progress.

The greatest weapon of the colonialist is the mind of the colonized.

The greatest enemy of mankind is not war, but poverty.

We are fighting for the independence of the Congo and for the dignity of the black man.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.