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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

10.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

12.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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.

20.

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

Manor, Rachel

21.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

22.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

23.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

24.

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

25.

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

26.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

27.

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

29.

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

30.

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

31.

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

Will Rogers

32.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

33.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

39.

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

40.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

42.

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

Hoffman, Abbie

43.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

47.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

48.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

49.

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

50.

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

Heller, Joseph