Hjalmar Branting Quotes

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

It is from the pride and ambition of rulers and the ignorance of the people that wars arise.

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

War is show business.

If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

There is no passion to which the rulers of a people can address themselves with greater [political] effect [than war.]

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