Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Johnson, Edward

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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

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 begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

10.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

14.

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

15.

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

16.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

17.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

18.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

19.

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

Westcott, Bishop

20.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

21.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

22.

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

23.

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

Junius

24.

War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

26.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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.

28.

Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

29.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

31.

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

32.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

33.

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Robert E. Lee

37.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

38.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Kitman, Marvin

42.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

43.

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

Cooke, E. V.

44.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

45.

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

46.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

47.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

48.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.