#wars

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

#authority #come #end #hangs #least

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#bodies #heads #how #i #just

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable. ↗

— Julian Glover

#big #comes #day #doing #done

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#peace #star #star wars #wars

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role. ↗

— Heinz Guderian

#battle #decisive #fought #future #play

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. ↗

— Colman McCarthy

#between #everyone #like #meals #pacifist

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#attitude #blinders #choose #citizens #civil

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. ↗

— John Hoeven

#america #better #better place #continent #country

Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. ↗

— Wojciech Jaruzelski

#goodness #ideas #live #medieval #over

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires