Motivational Quotes

War

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about War

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Junius

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Hazlitt, William

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

10.

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

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

W. L. George

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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

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

16.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Manor, Rachel

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

19.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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

29.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Cooke, E. V.

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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

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

49.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De