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The cause of war is preparation for war. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The principal cause of war is war itself. -- C. Wright Mills
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse. -- Jasper Fforde
Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war. -- Frank Knight
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. -- Chris Hedges
Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war. -- Peace Pilgrim
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. -- Francis Bacon
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand. -- Peter Kropotkin
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. -- James Madison
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
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
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
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
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed. -- Ludwig Quidde
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
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
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
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
The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States. -- Eustace Mullins
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
A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars. -- Jerry Pournelle
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another. -- Thomas Merton
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
It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war. -- Andrew Jackson
In war trivial causes produce momentous events. -- Julius Caesar
In war, important events result from trivial causes. -- Julius Caesar
War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally. -- Anthony Marra
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. -- Woodrow Wilson
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. -- Julius Caesar
Those who want war will find causes, no matter how many of them you take away. -- Diane Duane
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. -- Chris Shays
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. -- Chris Shays
People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people. -- Frederic C. Howe
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. -- Herodotus
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. -- Herodotus
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. -- Fidel Castro
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war. -- Marianne Moore
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. -- Woodrow Wilson
In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes. -- Howard Mittelmark
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
War? One can lose oneself in the joy of battle, in fighting for a glorious cause, but there are not many glorious causes for which to fight these days. -- Donna Tartt

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