Motivational Quotes

War

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

- Poe, Edgar Allan

Best Quotes about War

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

Will Rogers

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

W. L. George

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

11.

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

Carl Sandburg

12.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

16.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

17.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

18.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

19.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

21.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

23.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

24.

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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

26.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

28.

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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War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

30.

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 an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Benjamin, Walter

35.

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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

40.

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

Voltaire

41.

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 much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

43.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

44.

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

45.

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

Graves, Robert

46.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

47.

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

48.

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

Confucius

49.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

50.

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

Shakespeare, William