Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Albrecht, Karl

Best Quotes about War

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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

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

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Confucius

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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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

Benjamin, Walter

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Manor, Rachel

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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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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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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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

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Westcott, Bishop

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

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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 is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Omar Bradley

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

Will Rogers

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Either war is obsolete or men are.