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

Pound, Ezra

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

Reagan, Ronald

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

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

Eliot, T. S.

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.

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

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

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Heller, Joseph

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

Twain, Mark

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

Sun Tzu

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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.

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

Voltaire

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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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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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 is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Churchill, Winston

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

Manor, Rachel

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Meehan, Francis

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

W. L. George

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sewell, George

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

48.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Poe, Edgar Allan