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

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sun Tzu

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Einstein, Albert

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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

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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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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Omar Bradley

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

Georges Clemenceau

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

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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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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Blok, Alexander

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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

39.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og

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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

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Benjamin, Walter

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Einstein, Albert