Natan Sharansky Quotes

In order to function, the United States needs an enemy.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective of a power or group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Politics is pacific war.

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Cooperation requires a certain degree of trust between states. The threshold of trust required for cooperation depends on a set of variables including a state's relative power and costs of conflict…. conflict between trustworthy states is possible, when we see conflict it is a sign that one or both of the states are likely to be untrustworthy.

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.