Gore Vidal Quotes

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

We have won this war. We have chased out the terrorists.

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

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.

Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.

There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

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 is the usual condition of Europe.

I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

The focus is on the Middle East, so there are a lot of eyes on the battlefield. But there are other things that are happening around the world, in Northern Africa, things happen in the Southern Hemisphere and in Central and South America.

President Trump is trying to avoid war through economic pressure. Our so-called allies are undermining that pressure and in the process making war more likely.

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

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

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

The threat of a world war is no more.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.