Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) French philosopher
Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.82
“Come, let us wage a holy war!”
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“Not chaffering war but waging war, not with gold but with iron—thus let us of both sides make trial for our lives”
Nec cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes;
Ferro non auro vitam cernamus utrique.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book I, Chapter XII
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
And victory will be bestowed on them."
[5, 57, 1]
Sunni Hadith
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540) Italian writer, historian and politician
Non combattete mai con la religione, né con le cose che pare che dependono da Dio; perché questo obietto ha troppa forza nella mente degli sciocchi.
Number 253.
Counsels and Reflections (1857)
“My home policy: I wage war. My foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.”
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
Politique intérieure, je fais la guerre; politique extérieure, je fais la guerre. Je fais toujours la guerre.
"Discours de Guerre" [Speech on War] Chambre des Députés, Assemblée Nationale, Paris (8 March 1918)
“The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.”
Patrick Henry (1736–1799) attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the United States
1770s, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (1775)
Context: Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
“England, France, and Russia have conspired...to wage a war of annihilation against us.”
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia
30 July, 1924, quoted in World War I: The Definitive Visual History (United States: Smithsonian, 2014), p. 20
1920s