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

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

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

Confucius

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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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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

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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Georges Clemenceau

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Homer

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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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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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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.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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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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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

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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Einstein, Albert

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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