Motivational Quotes

War

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Manor, Rachel

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

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

Graves, Robert

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Omar Bradley

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Towbridge, J. T.

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Churchill, Winston

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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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

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

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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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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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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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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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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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Will Rogers