Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

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

Collier, Jeremy

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

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

Homer

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

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

10.

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

Twain, Mark

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

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

17.

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.

18.

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

Pound, Ezra

19.

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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

21.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

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

Twain, Mark

24.

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling, Rudyard

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

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

Carl Sandburg

28.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

Dietrich, Marlene

30.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

31.

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

32.

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

Manor, Rachel

33.

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

34.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

36.

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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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

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Buddha

42.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

43.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

44.

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

45.

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

Kitman, Marvin

46.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

47.

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

48.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

49.

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

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von