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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
War Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about War

1.
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short

2.
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

3.
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

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.
Knight, George A.

7.
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
Einstein, Albert

8.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.

9.
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Massie, Allan

11.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar Bradley

12.
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

13.
Either war is obsolete or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller

14.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Westcott, Bishop

15.
War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
Mumford, Lewis

16.
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer

17.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Benjamin, Walter

18.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Confucius

19.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Renard, Jules

20.
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

21.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
King Jr. Martin Luther

22.
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Heller, Joseph

23.
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

24.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
Hazlitt, William

25.
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

26.
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Hemingway, Ernest

27.
A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.
Dietrich, Marlene

28.
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau

29.
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

30.
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

31.
War is the trade of Kings.
Dryden, John

32.
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

33.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
Twain, Mark

34.
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George

35.
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
Heller, Joseph

36.
Wars are made to make debt.
Pound, Ezra

37.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Crisp, Quentin

38.
A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Bierce, Ambrose

39.
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

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Bismarck, Otto Von

44.
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

45.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.
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

47.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Penn, William

48.
One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Voltaire

49.
War is a contagion.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

50.
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


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