Motivational Quotes

War

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about War

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

Weil, Simone

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

Robert E. Lee

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

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

Hoffman, Abbie

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Blok, Alexander

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

George Orwell

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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

16.

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

17.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

18.

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

Confucius

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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

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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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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

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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

24.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Confucius

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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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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

30.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

34.

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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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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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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

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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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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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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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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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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.

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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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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