Motivational Quotes

War

War is like love, it always finds a way.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about War

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

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Towbridge, J. T.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Heller, Joseph

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

13.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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

George Orwell

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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

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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.

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

20.

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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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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

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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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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Sontag, Susan

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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

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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

W. L. George

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

Meehan, Francis

34.

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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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

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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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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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules