Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about War

Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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

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

Albrecht, Karl

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

10.

The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Confucius

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

19.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Monica Fairview

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Manor, Rachel

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

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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.

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Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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 is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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Cowards can never be moral.