Motivational Quotes

War

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

- Crook, Jayne

Best Quotes about War

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Clemenceau, Georges

10.

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

11.

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

12.

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

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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

17.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

19.

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

20.

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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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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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

25.

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

Sun Tzu

26.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

27.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

30.

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

31.

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

W. L. George

32.

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

Carl Sandburg

33.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

34.

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

35.

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

Omar Bradley

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The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

38.

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

39.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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

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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

45.

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

Eliot, T. S.

46.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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