Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about War

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

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

Johnson, Edward

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

Omar Bradley

Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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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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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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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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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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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

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

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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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

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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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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

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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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When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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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

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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

Voltaire