Indira Gandhi Quotes

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

When one nation is agreed in the policy of fighting another, any pretext will answer.

Israel does not need to resort to provocation [to have a war to bring down Abdul Nasser. Egypt itself supplies the provocations, continuously.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

It takes a certain political initiative to make people kill one another.

Ariel Sharon is a bellicose man who seemed to be chomping at the bit to start a war

I like the concept of escalating warfare, but you need someone to fight back in order for things to escalate. If there's no confrontation or argument going on, it's too dull for me. I think that's the nature of the prankster: Things are too quiet. What can I do?

There have been many examples in the world of people doing crazy things because they want to keep war going.

You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.

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

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

My sentence is for open war.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

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