Bobby Sands Quotes

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.

People.. .love to say that 'Violence never solved anything.' But what solved Hitler? Was It a team of social workers? Was it putting daisies into the gun barrels of Nazi Panzer divisions? Was it a commission that tried to understand what made Hitler sorry? ?No. What solved Hitler was violence.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

The end of war is to procure by force the justice which cannot otherwise be obtained.

I am too realistic to believe in pacifism. But, nevertheless, the use of force should always be the last resort.

The South does not understand anything but the language of the gun.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

War is the trade of Kings.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.