Motivational Quotes

War

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about War

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

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

Will Rogers

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

Blok, Alexander

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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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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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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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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

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

Omar Bradley

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Manor, Rachel

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Homer

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War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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

W. L. George

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

Confucius

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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 alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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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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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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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

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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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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Cooke, E. V.

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short