Motivational Quotes

War

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

- Kipling, Rudyard

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

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sun Tzu

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

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

11.

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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Koestler, Arthur

15.

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

Albrecht, Karl

17.

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

18.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

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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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

22.

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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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

24.

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

25.

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

Meehan, Francis

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Crook, Jayne

29.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Omar Bradley

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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Towbridge, J. T.

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Carl Sandburg

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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

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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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

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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 an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Shakespeare, William