Walid Jumblatt Quotes

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.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

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.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

A major geopolitical disaster

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

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.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

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 politics by other means.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

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.

Hours before the Georgian invasion, Russia had been working to secure a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a renunciation of force by both Georgia and South Ossetians. The statement that could have averted bloodshed was blocked by western countries.

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

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.