Motivational Quotes

War

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

- Andrews, C. D.

Best Quotes about War

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Sontag, Susan

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling, Rudyard

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

13.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

14.

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

15.

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

16.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

17.

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

20.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

21.

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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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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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

24.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

27.

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

28.

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

29.

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

30.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

31.

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

Eliot, T. S.

32.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

34.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

35.

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og

36.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Voltaire

38.

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

Georges Clemenceau

39.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

40.

Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Shakespeare, William

41.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

42.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

43.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

44.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

45.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

46.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

49.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark