Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

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

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

W. L. George

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

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

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Confucius

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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Confucius

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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

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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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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

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Arendt, Hannah

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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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 the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Hazlitt, William

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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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War is the trade of Kings.