Joseph Stalin Quotes

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

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

Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

We must take all that territory away from ISIS.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

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.

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

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.

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It's what the neoconservatives have wanted. It's what the vast majority of those on the stage want.

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.