Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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 problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Shakespeare, William

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Einstein, Albert

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

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

Omar Bradley

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When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

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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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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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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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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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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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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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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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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 coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Voltaire

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

Graves, Robert

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sun Tzu

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

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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