Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Blok, Alexander

Best Quotes about War

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

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

Westcott, Bishop

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Blok, Alexander

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

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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

11.

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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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

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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 like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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 effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

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

20.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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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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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.

24.

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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

Voltaire

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

Eliot, T. S.

41.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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