War has become a luxury that only small nations ca... -Hannah Arendt

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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt , Historian
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Hannah Arendt Quotes to Explore

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil....
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford....
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to ...
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, ...
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with m...
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magni...
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes....
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a spec...
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to l...
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof f...

War Quotes to Explore

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is...
I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in ...
The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences....
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first....
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Cen...
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services....
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, wh...
Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demoniz...
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature....
What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?...