Best risk & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources”

“The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.”

Wells Made War Principles Risk Conditions Keys Resistance Grants Yield Retirement Wiser Honorable Assault Vigorous Fortresses Capitulation

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!”

Ifs War Chance Deals Risk Talent Communication Battle Determine Superiors Magazines Midst Reserves Beaten Woe Adversaries

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“For 30 years I have used my platform in provocative ways to encourage a healthy dialogue about important issues, including HIV/AIDS, war, and homelessness. I'm well aware of the risks that come with this approach, and if this encourages further awareness and discussion about critical issues then all-the-better.”

Ifs Way Years Wells Important War Used Issues Risk Awareness Healthy Approach Including Critical Aids Dialogue Discussion Platforms Homelessness Hiv Provocative Important Issues Hiv Aids

Author:Kenneth Cole

“Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. Men came from the east and built these American towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.”

Men Humans Two War Form Desire Risk Movement Built Essence Towns Longing Hunger East Urges Stability Opposing Permanence Instability

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.”

“If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.”

Ifs War Risk Achieve Friction

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.”

Ifs War Would Be Moving Force Peace Risk American Life Lebanon

Author:George Will

“Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.”

Knows War Use Imagination Enemy Risk Danger Duty Cost Weight Soldier Consideration Urgent Familiarity Enabling

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.”

War Difficult Natural Risk Dangerous Disaster Violent Zone Protest Natural Disaster War Zones

Author:Kate Adie

“Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.”

“The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.”

War Race Greater Risk Security Arms Limits Weapons Program Nuclear Alternatives Iran Nuclear Weapons Arms Race Inspection Nuclear Arms Nuclear Arms Race

Author:Barack Obama

“How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.”

“Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.”

World Giving War Motivation Risk India Threat Related Warfare Shields Cyber Cyber Warfare

Author:Narendra Modi

“In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.”

War Winning Loss Risk

Author:John McPhee

“A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.”

War Risk Middle Willing Conservative East Middle East Status Quo Factions Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe they, at length, become willing to run the risk of being less free.”

War Running Political Rights Risk Security Events Willing Safe Institutions Tendencies Length Resorts Repose Political Rights Security And Liberty

Book:The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

Source: The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

“As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.”

War Stories Running Risk

Author:Asne Seierstad

“I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty Years' War. If you don't make the connection between memories of past atrocities and the present, there isn't any point to it. There are plenty of horrible things happening today in Germany and in the rest of the world.”

“Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.”

War States Hours Wealth Rich Nice Risk Casts Gambling Hazards Doubtful

Book:Henry IV

Source: Henry IV

“War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.”

War Nations Risk Ought Amount Lottery Small Amounts

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.”

Knows Men War Country Games Risk Serious Trade Reputation Sensible Troops

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.”

Should War Country Would Be Nations Risk Should Have Privilege Determine Voting

Book:War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

“Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.”

Ifs Thinking Want Humans War Earth Interest Space Race Risk Danger Nuclear Disaster Human Race Global Warming Viruses Nuclear War Public Interest

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race.”

“A too-swift and easy coalition victory may substantially increase the risk of future wars.”

May War Easy Risk Victory Increase Coalitions

Author:Robert Manne

“Some of the guys in the Northern Alliance are war criminals. One of the Northern Alliance commanders ran a slave girl network in Kabul in 1994. Remember that there was a period when every woman on the streets was at risk of being raped. This was the Northern Alliance period of glory.”

War Remember Guy Girl Risk Streets Periods Glory Slave Criminals Ran Commanders Alliances Kabul Slave Girl

Author:Robert Fisk

“Because the US has control of the sea. Because the US has built up its wealth. Because the US is the only country in the world really not to have a war fought on its territory since the time of the Civil War ... Therefore we can afford mistakes that would kill other countries. And therefore we can take risks that they can't ... the core answer to why the United States is like this is we didn't fight World War I and World War II and the Cold War here.”

“In an election like this one [in 2016], not only are voters dissatisfied, but where the foundations of our economy, our democracy, our ecosystem, and international war and peace are really crumbling and are really at grave risk for failing in many ways, we need desperately to have an honest public conversation about both the track record of where we've been, what are the critical problems we are facing and what it will take to solve them.”

“We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.”

Knows May War Order Risk Terrible Nuclear Communism Nuclear War Capitulation

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.”

Ifs Wells War Country States Today United United States Risk Protect Prepared Climate Climate Change Nuclear Right Thing Doing The Right Thing Epidemics Nuclear War

Author:Bill Gates

“One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential threats - the threats to the termination of the species basically and most other species - one of them, climate change, on that I think there's no basis for discussion.”

Thinking Two War Risk Danger Trump Bases Threat Climate Species Climate Change Dues Nuclear Discussion Existential Nuclear War Termination

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In the military we also learn principles of war which also work in a corporate setting: How do you concentrate as much of your force as possible on a critical point and take a risk elsewhere? In business that translates into focusing your investment on marketing, sales, or R&D, whichever will give you the greatest return.”

Giving War Force Principles Risk Military Return Investment Marketing Critical Setting Settings Corporate Elsewhere Translate

Author:Colin Powell

“When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly free. You realize: I'm here, I'm in it. Exaltation. Suddenly you're hit by another extraordinary feeling: my God, I can be killed. And: will I embarrass myself? It's like you're in a kaleidoscope and all of these extraordinary feelings are zipping by.”

I Can War Moments Feelings Young Realizing Risk Like You Exciting Extraordinary Battlefields Exaltation Going To War Kaleidoscope

Author:George Friedman

“As a planet, we are at risk of destruction (for example, gradually by the warming of the planet; or rapidly, by nuclear war or a pathogen that gets out of control). And these threats require us to work together, and not just to announce our diversity.”

War Together Risk Example Planets Diversity Destruction Threat Nuclear Working Together Nuclear War Pathogens

Author:Howard Gardner

“When you go into a country like Libya where a large chunk of the population wants the old regime back you could end up with a protracted civil war. That we're now in a stalemate was both entirely predictable, and predicted. That we're now relying on drones is disturbing. How vital can a cause be if we're not willing to risk American lives to defend it, and instead use robots and remote control operators? It gets me back to the larger feeling about the intervention - there's just not a compelling reason for us to be involved.”

War Country Reason Feelings Risk Civil War Predictable

Author:Michael Hastings

“Congress has created and funded a huge peacetime military that has substantial abilities to wage offensive operations, and it has not placed restrictions on the use of that military or the funds to support it, because it would rather let the president take the political risks in deciding on war. If Congress wanted to play a role in restricting war, it could - it simply does not want to. But we should not mistake a failure of political will for a violation of the Constitution.”

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Author:John Yoo

“Do you realize how many people of this country have been educated, have grown up, who have been taught that, yeah, we're at risk and there's a lot of people that want to blow us up and don't like us. But we are to blame. That's what they've been taught. We are to blame, 'cause there was slavery, because we've stolen all these goods and resources from other countries. We have imposed our way of life on them! We've sent our military around, and we've conducted wars on their territory and so forth.”

People War Country Realizing Risk Military Blame Slavery Blow Educated

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“With war and famine and flood and special effects films, when you do somebody under duress, you have to be really be inventive and the risk of keeping it very simple is you might loose some of the audience because it's not overt, it's hidden, not coming at you. Then you might cut through to some of this numbness and reach something profound and tragic.”

War Film Simple Audience Cutting Risk Special Profound Tragic Flood Famine

Author:Peter Weir

“There is reason to say that negotiations with the North Koreans are not easy, they may not succeed, but they may be a way of getting to where we want to get to, limiting the capability of the North Koreans to do harm to us and our allies without the use of military force and without the risk of a major war in Northeast Asia.”

War Reason Easy Risk Military Succeed Capability Negotiation North Korea Korean North Korean

Author:Robert Gallucci

“I'm willing to go through a full body scan or anything else you need to. What I am offended by is the absolute unwillingness of Obama's administration. Callista and I did a movie called "America at Risk: The War with No Name," where we outlined - who are the people who've been terrorists in the last three or four years? They're all males. They're all young. They're all fairly identifiable in other ways. So we're going to a point - we're going to have a full body scan of an 83-year-old nun from Des Moines because we don't want to be honest about who our enemies are?”

People War Enemy Risk Honest Terrorist Being Honest Offended Nun

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because they're almost the antithesis of the American character of generosity, of charity, of welcoming, of helping, of taking risks. You think of the lives that were expended in World War I and World War II to help others, and they say now we'll draw up the bridge and we'll protect ourselves. We won't have a broader role in humanity.”

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