Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about War

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

George Orwell

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

10.

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

11.

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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War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Omar Bradley

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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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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Koestler, Arthur

20.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Reagan, Ronald

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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.

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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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I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

33.

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

Blok, Alexander

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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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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Manor, Rachel

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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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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.