Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Blok, Alexander

Best Quotes about War

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

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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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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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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Eliot, T. S.

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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

17.

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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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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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cooke, E. V.

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Hazlitt, William

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Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Shakespeare, William

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

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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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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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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

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

Homer

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

Omar Bradley

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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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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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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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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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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