Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Clausewitz, Karl Von

Best Quotes about War

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

Shakespeare, William

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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 coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blok, Alexander

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

Buddha

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Manor, Rachel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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

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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.

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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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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma