Causes Of War Quotes

• The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Judging

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.451

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• I used to think that the causes of war were predominantly economic. I came to think that they were more psychological. I am now coming to think that they are decisively "personal," arising from the defects and ambitions of those who have the power to influence the currents of nations.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Ambition, Thinking

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• The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

  Chris Hedges

  Peace, War, Next

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.151, PublicAffairs

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• Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

  Henry Ford

  War, Dirty, Greed

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• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  C. Wright Mills

  War, Causes, Principal

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• Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Real, War

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.181, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

  Zelda Popkin

  Revenge, Hate, War

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• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, War, Communication

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)" by M.P. Singh, p. 101, January 1, 2005.

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• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  War, Preparation, Causes

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Men, Stupidity

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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• We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance, however remote, that we might miss an opportunity to reduce the occurrence of war.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Opportunity, Missing

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

  Francis Bacon

  War, Blow, Causes

  Francis Bacon (1826*). “The Beauties of Bacon”, p.191

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• The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Gains, Causes

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• Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  War, Causes, Harmony

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• We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Memorial Day, Peace

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, War, Events

  "Quote Junkie: War and Patriotism". Book by Hagopian Institute, p.3, March 12, 2008.

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

  Elihu Root

  War, Civilization, Causes

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Agreement, Stronger

  Lester B. Pearson (1974). “Mike: the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson”, Crown

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• Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

  Frank Knight

  War, Causes, Conflict

  Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con”, p.297, University of Chicago Press

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• I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Race, White

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Unions, Slave

  Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 Aug. 1862

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• The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific cooperation in place of the old fierce doctrines of sin and punishment. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, War, Teaching

  "Why I Am Not a Christian".

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• Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Passion, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Idea”, p.311, Arthur Schopenhauer

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