Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

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

Confucius

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Mamet, David

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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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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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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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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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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

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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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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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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

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

34.

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

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

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

George Orwell

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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman