Best Quotes about War
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
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Benn, Tony
It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
Surtees, Robert S.
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
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
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Reagan, Ronald
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
Dahlberg, Edward
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Hoffman, Abbie
The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.
Crook, Jayne
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
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
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.
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
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer
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
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
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
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Thoreau, Henry David
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Weil, Simone
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Westcott, Bishop
Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.
Shakespeare, William
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
Eliot, T. S.
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
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short
It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.
Baudouin I
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau
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
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
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
Graves, Robert
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
Walter Goodman
A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.
Dietrich, Marlene
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.
The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.
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
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
Rufus, Quintus Curtius
The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
Raleigh, Sir Walter
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
God's delays are not God's denials.
Schuller, Robert H.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
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
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Proverb, Irish
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
Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.
Manor, Rachel
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Meehan, Francis
O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
Andrews, C. D.
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
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
If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
Kipling, Rudyard
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