Che Guevara Quotes

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

War is the science of destruction.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

The end of war is to procure by force the justice which cannot otherwise be obtained.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst

One active campaign, a smart action, and burning two or three their towns, will set everything to rights.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

You can’t have peace without a war.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

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

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

In a war, you do whatever you have to do.

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

In a war the aggressor sets the rules.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.