Motivational Quotes

War

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about War

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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

Georges Clemenceau

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

Twain, Mark

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

George Orwell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Crook, Jayne

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Shakespeare, William

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Buddha

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

Twain, Mark

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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.

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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