Motivational Quotes

War

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about War

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

Weil, Simone

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Homer

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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

Georges Clemenceau

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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Buddha

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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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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Robert E. Lee

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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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A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Manor, Rachel

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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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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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

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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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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 a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

43.

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

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.