Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

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

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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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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

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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Johnson, Edward

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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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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Baudouin I

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Heller, Joseph

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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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

Cooke, E. V.

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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

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Andrews, C. D.

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Confucius

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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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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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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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