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The principal cause of war is war itself. -- C. Wright Mills
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. -- Chris Hedges
The cause of war is preparation for war. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
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
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. -- Francis Bacon
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
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
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
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
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. -- Christopher Shays
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. -- Julius Caesar
I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war. -- Hiam Abbass
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. -- Thucydides
War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence. -- Betty Williams
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods. -- Ludwig von Mises
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. -- Joe Baca
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. -- Lester B. Pearson
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it. -- James Dickey
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. -- Thomas Aquinas
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
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
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause. -- Zadie Smith
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. -- A. J. P. Taylor
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. -- Otto Dix
Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent. -- Neil Sheehan
War doesn't cause peace. Period. -- Sue Fitzmaurice
War is just an effect, not a cause. -- Marianne Williamson
Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war. -- Alexei Panshin
It is the good war that hallows every cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause. -- Seneca the Younger
In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution. -- A.J. Darkholme
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. -- Christopher Shays
What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war? -- Cindy Sheehan
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine. -- Banksy
The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it. -- C. Wright Mills
Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did. -- Patricia Briggs
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. -- Ernest Hemingway
People at war with themselves will always cause collateral damage in the lives of those around them. -- John Mark Green
War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet. -- Myles Standish
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
You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right. -- Ani DiFranco
If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.' -- Gilbert Gottfried
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. -- Ulysses S. Grant
For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war. -- Pope Francis
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. -- James Madison
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind. -- Edgar Allan Poe
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause. -- Ellen Key
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause... -- Scott Ritter
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. -- Howard Zinn
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War. -- Robert Conquest
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war. -- Abraham Lincoln
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. -- Gene Tierney
The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war. -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace. -- Ralph Barton Perry
Wait, I got it. We, uh, won the battle and lost the war, or was it the other way around? 'Cause around here, it's hard to tell sometimes. -- Kami Garcia
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself. -- Barbara Tuchman
Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause. -- Mel Carnahan
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
Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers. -- Marlene Caroselli
Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace. -- Arnold Joseph Toynbee

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