Motivational Quotes

War

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

- Mahatma Gandhi

Best Quotes about War

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Voltaire

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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.

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

Hoffman, Abbie

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

Manor, Rachel

10.

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

Buddha

11.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

12.

War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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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

14.

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

Homer

15.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

16.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

17.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

18.

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

Benjamin, Walter

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

21.

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

22.

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

23.

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

24.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

26.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

27.

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

28.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

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

Confucius

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

Reagan, Ronald

34.

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

Weil, Simone

35.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

36.

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

Mencken, H. L.

37.

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

38.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

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

Georges Clemenceau

42.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

44.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

Heller, Joseph

46.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

47.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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