Anatoly Chubais Quotes

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

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

We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.

The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.

We not ought to fight them at all, unless we are determined to fight them forever.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

The approach of danger always lends precision to the diplomatic art.

This Republic and Japan are approaching that point of contact which is war.

There is only one way to liberate Palestine and Al-Aqsa, and that is the fighting, that is the Jihad, that is the slaughtering, that is the butchering…call it dialogue.

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

Desperate times require desperate measures. Violence is not only the answer. It is the only answer.

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

War room

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

I cannot take the responsibility for the shedding a single drop of blood. I believe this bloodshed could have been avoided.

It is not important what the other side says or means. What is important are the military capabilities of the other side.

One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves.

I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.

We'd won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren't going to win.

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.