Motivational Quotes

War

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about War

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Renard, Jules

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

Albrecht, Karl

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

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

10.

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

Buddha

11.

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

12.

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

13.

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

Blok, Alexander

14.

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.

15.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

16.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

17.

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

18.

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

Reagan, Ronald

19.

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

20.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?

Kocher, Gerhard

25.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

26.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

28.

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

29.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

30.

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

Homer

31.

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

34.

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

35.

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

36.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

39.

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

40.

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.

41.

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

Meehan, Francis

42.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

45.

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

46.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

47.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

48.

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

Sun Tzu

49.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.