Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Sun Tzu

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

Albrecht, Karl

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Monica Fairview

11.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

16.

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

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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

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Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

19.

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

20.

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

21.

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

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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

23.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

29.

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

31.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

32.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

33.

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

34.

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

Johnson, Edward

35.

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

Sewell, George

36.

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

Crook, Jayne

37.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

38.

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

Heller, Joseph

39.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

40.

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

Renard, Jules

41.

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

Pound, Ezra

42.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

Weil, Simone

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

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

48.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

49.

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

50.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.