Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

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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I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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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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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

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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 wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Einstein, Albert

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

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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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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

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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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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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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

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Meehan, Francis

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

Graves, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Buddha

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A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Voltaire

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

Omar Bradley

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

Kitman, Marvin

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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Sun Tzu