Motivational Quotes

War

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

- Blok, Alexander

Best Quotes about War

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Homer

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

Manor, Rachel

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Robert E. Lee

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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.

11.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

12.

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

Weil, Simone

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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

15.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

17.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

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

Reagan, Ronald

20.

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

Omar Bradley

22.

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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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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 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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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

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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

Confucius

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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Hazlitt, William

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

40.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

47.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

48.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short