Motivational Quotes

War

War is not nice.

- Barbara Bush

Best Quotes about War

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

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Pound, Ezra

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Washington, Booker T.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

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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

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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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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

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I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Westcott, Bishop

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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

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

Georges Clemenceau

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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

Junius

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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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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

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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

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Crook, Jayne

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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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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

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

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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 is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benjamin, Walter

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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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

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Einstein, Albert

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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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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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