Motivational Quotes

War

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

- Walter Goodman

Best Quotes about War

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

Baudouin I

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

Blok, Alexander

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Einstein, Albert

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Meehan, Francis

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

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

W. L. George

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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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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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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

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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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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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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Manor, Rachel

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

22.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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 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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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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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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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

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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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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.