Motivational Quotes

War

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about War

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

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

Confucius

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

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

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.

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

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

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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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

12.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

20.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Voltaire

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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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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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

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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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What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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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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

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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

Einstein, Albert

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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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

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

Kitman, Marvin

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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