Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Albrecht, Karl

Best Quotes about War

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

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

Heller, Joseph

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

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

Confucius

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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

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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

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Albrecht, Karl

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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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

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

Westcott, Bishop

29.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Towbridge, J. T.

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Mamet, David

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

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I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

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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

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George