Motivational Quotes

War

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Blok, Alexander

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

Sun Tzu

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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

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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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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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 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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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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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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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Mamet, David

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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?

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Shakespeare, William

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

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

Georges Clemenceau

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

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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

30.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

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 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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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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

Buddha

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Confucius

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Manor, Rachel

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

44.

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

Meehan, Francis

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

Omar Bradley

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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

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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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 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.