James explaining one of the messages he says he receives from the extraterrestrials.
“Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
This is almost always attributed to US Ambassador Francis Meehan http://www.nndb.com/people/060/000121694/, though without citations, and only very rarely to Patton. <br class="br">Misattributed
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) British writer
"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" (1958), from New and Collected Stories (1958; repr. London: Robson, 2003), p. 8.
Theodore Levitt (1925–2006) American economist and professor at Harvard Business School
Source: Marketing Myopia, 1960, p. 1; Lead paragraph
George Friedman (1949) American businessman and political scientist
Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 67
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Source: Bleach, Volume 04
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author
On the 1991 Gulf War
1990s, CNN interview (1999)
Context: I think it's going to be remembered as the last major war on planet Earth, if we're lucky, if we maintain our foreign policy properly. … It will be remembered as the last time major countries had to put people in the field and put them in harm's way. It may be the last of all human nature wars, which is a nice way to remember any kind of a war, as the last one.
“Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
There is no known basis to attribute this saying to Napoleon. It is found (unattributed) in a Usenet post from July 1999 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=soc.penpals/QIUrpkacWyE/FbCj7pij5WwJ. <br class="br">Misattributed
“So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game
Source: Ender's Game
