Dustin Hoffman Quotes

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

Do not play with fire in Indonesia … let not the lack of understanding by America lead to a third world war.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

In peace and war it's always money.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Wars are directed by bankers.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

If this phrase of “the balance of power” is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting …

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

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.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.