Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Omar Bradley

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

Confucius

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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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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

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Renard, Jules

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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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It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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 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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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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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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 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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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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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

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Manor, Rachel

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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