Motivational Quotes

War

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

- Agatha Christie

Best Quotes about War

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Woolf, Virginia

The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

10.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

11.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

14.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

15.

Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

16.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

19.

What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

20.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

21.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

22.

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

24.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

26.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

27.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

28.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

29.

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

30.

War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

32.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

33.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

34.

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

36.

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

37.

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

38.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

39.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

40.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

41.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

42.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

43.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

45.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

47.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

48.

What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

49.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.