Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Hoffman, Abbie

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Massie, Allan

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

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

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

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

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

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

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.

10.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

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

Confucius

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

Meehan, Francis

15.

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

18.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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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

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

27.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

28.

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

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

30.

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

31.

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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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

35.

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

36.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

40.

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

Omar Bradley

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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.

42.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Buddha

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

48.

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.

49.

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

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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