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Quotes About Consequence

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
~ Chris Hedges
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
~ Aurangzeb
Killing is the payoff of war.
~ Morley Safer
In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil
~ Robert S. McNamara
Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left
~ Bertrand Russell
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
~ H. G. Wells
Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.
~ Madeleine Albright
The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
War is the only game in which both sides lose.
~ Walter Scott
In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.
~ John McPhee
That man made me miss my destiny.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
~ A. J. Muste
After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.
~ Sam Manekshaw
Once you start a war, you have to win.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Another victory like that and we are done for.
~ Pyrrhus of Epirus
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost
~ Sun Tzu
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
~ Thomas Paine
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In war, important events result from trivial causes.
~ Julius Caesar