Motivational Quotes

War

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about War

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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

Crook, Jayne

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

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

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

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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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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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Sontag, Susan

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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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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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Penn, William

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

Blok, Alexander

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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.

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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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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Will Rogers

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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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It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

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

Massie, Allan

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Confucius

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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.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Monica Fairview