Motivational Quotes

War

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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Best Quotes about War

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

Sun Tzu

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Manor, Rachel

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

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

Clemenceau, Georges

10.

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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

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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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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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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

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Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Edward

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kipling, Rudyard

27.

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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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

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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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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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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

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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 not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

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

Benjamin, Walter

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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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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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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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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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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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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