Motivational Quotes

War

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

- George Orwell

Best Quotes about War

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

10.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

11.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Confucius

13.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

14.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

17.

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

Benjamin, Walter

18.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

19.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

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

Sun Tzu

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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

23.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Koestler, Arthur

27.

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

28.

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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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

30.

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

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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

32.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

38.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

39.

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

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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

41.

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

42.

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

44.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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.

46.

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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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hazlitt, William

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