Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about War

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

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

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

Hoffman, Abbie

10.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

11.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

15.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

17.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

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

22.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

23.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

24.

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

Weil, Simone

25.

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

Baudouin I

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

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

George Orwell

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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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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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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

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

Manor, Rachel

37.

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

Blok, Alexander

38.

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

Confucius

39.

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

40.

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

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Eliot, T. S.

43.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

48.

Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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