Mao Zedong Quotes

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

People like to talk about war.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Like individuals, some peoples are naturally pacific and some naturally aggressive.

Be very careful of military action. You will be judged by how it ends—not by how it begins.

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

… a visceral fear of appeasement has led to entirely avoidable disasters

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

We are not only facing economic disaster and the question of peace and war. Ukrainians are traumatized by this Moscow-led aggression that has cost the lives of 5,000 people.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

War is the normal state of the people.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

What happened on September 11 wasn't the first act of war, it was the most unspeakable act of murder and terrorism. But it was construed by a very small group of people - there is no army out there in the dark waiting to take over America. It's like being stung by a bee and going out and smashing up a beehive, and thinking you've solved the problem. There are more beehives out there; more bees will come. But they're bees. They're not grizzly bears.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.