Motivational Quotes

War

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

Best Quotes about War

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

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Will Rogers

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Twain, Mark

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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

29.

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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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

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Omar Bradley

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Homer

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Junius

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

W. L. George

44.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Voltaire

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.