Motivational Quotes

War

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about War

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

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Cooke, E. V.

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

Twain, Mark

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Meehan, Francis

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

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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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Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og

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

Carl Sandburg

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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

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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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Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Buddha

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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

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sun Tzu

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Junius

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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Blok, Alexander

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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

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara