Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about War

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

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

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

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

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

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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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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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.

Manor, Rachel

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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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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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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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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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: 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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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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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Confucius

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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Irish

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Meehan, Francis

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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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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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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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War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Voltaire

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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