Motivational Quotes

War

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about War

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Reagan, Ronald

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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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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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War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Confucius

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Proverb, Irish

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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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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

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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin 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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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

Buddha

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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?