Stefan Zweig Quotes

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

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.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

In time of peace prepare for war.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

When one nation is agreed in the policy of fighting another, any pretext will answer.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

War is the trade of Kings.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

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

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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