Quotes About Power

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say 'I love you.' And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.