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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Homer

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

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

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

Clemenceau, Georges

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Twain, Mark

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Carl Sandburg

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

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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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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Sewell, George

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

Sun Tzu

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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 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.

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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

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.