Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Clausewitz, Karl Von

Best Quotes about War

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

Benjamin, Walter

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

10.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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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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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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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The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

23.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

32.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

38.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.