„Dominion status can certainly not be attained by a community which brands and treats sixty millions of its members, fellow human beings, toiling at their side, as ‘Untouchables’, whose approach is an affront and whose very presence is pollution. Dominion status can certainly not be attained while India is a prey to fierce racial and religious dissensions and when the withdrawal of British protection would mean the immediate resumption of mediaeval wars. It cannot be attained while the political classes in India represent only an insignificant fraction of the three hundred and fifty millions for whose welfare we are responsible.“

— Winston S. Churchill

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„Our discussion has shown that while in war many different roads can lead to the goal, to the attainment of the political object, fighting is the only possible means.“
— Carl von Clausewitz
„How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
„But we must be ready to face any temporary disaster - whether or not brought on by those who will war against us to the knife — if only through such disaster can we attain our goal.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?“
— W.E.B. Du Bois
„About three million must be regarded as middle peasants, while barely two million consist of kulaks, rich peasants, grain profiteers… Ruthless war on the kulaks! Death to them! … [Class struggle entails] ruthless suppression of the kulaks, those bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who batten on famine.“
— Vladimir Lenin