Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Koestler, Arthur

Best Quotes about War

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

Albrecht, Karl

Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.

Manor, Rachel

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

Kocher, Gerhard

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

10.

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

11.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

13.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

14.

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

Proverb, Irish

15.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

16.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

17.

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

Confucius

18.

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter

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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

20.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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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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

24.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

25.

What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

26.

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

Carl Sandburg

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

29.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

30.

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

Crook, Jayne

31.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

32.

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

33.

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

34.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

35.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

36.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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.

38.

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

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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

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

George Orwell

41.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

42.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

43.

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

44.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

48.

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

49.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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