Motivational Quotes

War

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

- Georges Clemenceau

Best Quotes about War

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

W. L. George

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Kipling, Rudyard

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

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.

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

Meehan, Francis

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Westcott, Bishop

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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Homer

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Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

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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 -- 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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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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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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

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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Shakespeare, William

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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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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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Manor, Rachel