Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Churchill, Winston

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

Robert E. Lee

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

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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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

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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Confucius

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

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Monica Fairview

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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.

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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

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Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Andrews, C. D.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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 coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Penn, William

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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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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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

Benjamin, Walter

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara