Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Will Rogers

Best Quotes about War

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

Sewell, George

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.

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

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Voltaire

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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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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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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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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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

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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

Omar Bradley

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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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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War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter