Hardball with Chris Matthews, November 16 2004
2000s
“There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.”
“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.”
The 1930s
Source: [Winston Churchill Quotes Military History Matters, https://www.military-history.org/feature/winston-churchill-quotes.htm, www.military-history.org, 2010-11-20, 2022-03-09, en-US, Military History, Matters]
“The so-called "peace" is an interval between wars.”
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"The Epigrams of Lusin"
“There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.”
Canto III, line 957
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 250
“The opposite of war isn't peace… It's creation!”
Rent (1996)
"In the Storm" in Le Socialiste http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1904/05/01.htm as translated by Mitch Abidor (1 - 8 May 1904)
Context: The Russo-Japanese War now gives to all an awareness that even war and peace in Europe – its destiny – isn’t decided between the four walls of the European concert, but outside it, in the gigantic maelstrom of world and colonial politics.
And its in this that the real meaning of the current war resides for social-democracy, even if we set aside its immediate effect: the collapse of Russian absolutism. This war brings the gaze of the international proletariat back to the great political and economic connectedness of the world, and violently dissipates in our ranks the particularism, the pettiness of ideas that form in any period of political calm.
The war completely rends all the veils which the bourgeois world – this world of economic, political and social fetishism – constantly wraps us in.
The war destroys the appearance which leads us to believe in peaceful social evolution; in the omnipotence and the untouchability of bourgeois legality; in national exclusivism; in the stability of political conditions; in the conscious direction of politics by these “statesmen” or parties; in the significance capable of shaking up the world of the squabbles in bourgeois parliaments; in parliamentarism as the so-called center of social existence.
War unleashes – at the same time as the reactionary forces of the capitalist world – the generating forces of social revolution which ferment in its depths.
