Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Monica Fairview

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Twain, Mark

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

10.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

12.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

13.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

14.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

15.

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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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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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

Proverb, Irish

22.

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.

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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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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.

25.

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

Voltaire

27.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Washington, Booker T.

40.

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

Blok, Alexander

41.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

Benjamin, Walter

43.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Twain, Mark

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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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