Jesse Ventura Quotes

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

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

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.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

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.