Motivational Quotes

War

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Westcott, Bishop

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

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

Koestler, Arthur

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

Homer

12.

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

13.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

14.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

18.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

20.

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

21.

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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Benjamin, Walter

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I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

27.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cooke, E. V.

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

Sewell, George

30.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

31.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

33.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

34.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

35.

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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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

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

38.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

46.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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