Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Cooke, E. V.

Best Quotes about War

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Buddha

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cooke, E. V.

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

10.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

11.

When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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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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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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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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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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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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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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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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

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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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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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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Meehan, Francis

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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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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

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Manor, Rachel

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

45.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Benjamin, Walter

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma