Best Quotes about War
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Twain, Mark
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
The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Benn, Tony
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Hemingway, Ernest
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
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
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Confucius
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Hoffman, Abbie
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
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Cockburn, Alexander
A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Bierce, Ambrose
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Weil, Simone
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
If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.
Albrecht, Karl
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
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
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
Einstein, Albert
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
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
Asquith, Margot
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
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
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Mumford, Lewis
War is the trade of Kings.
Dryden, John
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
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Thoreau, Henry David
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
Walter Goodman
For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Washington, Booker T.
Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.
Manor, Rachel
Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
Blok, Alexander
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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
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
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Huxley, Aldous
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.
Clausewitz, Karl Von
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Pound, Ezra
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
Rockefeller, John D.
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Massie, Allan
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
Twain, Mark
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
Einstein, Albert
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
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
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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