Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about War

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

10.

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

11.

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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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

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

18.

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

Confucius

19.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

20.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

21.

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

Robert E. Lee

22.

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

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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

24.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Johnson, Edward

33.

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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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

35.

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

Junius

36.

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

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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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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

42.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

43.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

44.

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

45.

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

W. L. George

46.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

48.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

49.

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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I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.