Motivational Quotes

War

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about War

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

Voltaire

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

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

Einstein, Albert

It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

10.

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

11.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

13.

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

Heller, Joseph

14.

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

George Orwell

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

17.

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

Pound, Ezra

18.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

20.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

21.

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

Omar Bradley

22.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

31.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

32.

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

33.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

34.

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

Blok, Alexander

35.

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

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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

37.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

38.

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

Kitman, Marvin

39.

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

40.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

41.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

44.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

46.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

47.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

49.

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

50.

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De