Motivational Quotes

War

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about War

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Heller, Joseph

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

George Orwell

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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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

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

Carl Sandburg

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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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The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

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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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A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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

Voltaire

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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

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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 reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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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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

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Georges Clemenceau

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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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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

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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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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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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