Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Graves, Robert

Best Quotes about War

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

Meehan, Francis

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Buddha

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Penn, William

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

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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

10.

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.

11.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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 triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

19.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

20.

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

George Orwell

21.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

22.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

23.

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

24.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

26.

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

Weil, Simone

27.

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

28.

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

29.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

30.

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

31.

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

Confucius

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Manor, Rachel

35.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

36.

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

37.

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

38.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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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

40.

The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

41.

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

Baudouin I

42.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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

44.

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

Proverb, Irish

45.

War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of the sheltered life. Our wish for indulgence of every sort, our laxity of manners, our wretched sensitiveness to personal inconvenience, these are suddenly lifted before us in their true guise as the specters of national decay; and we have risen from the lethargy of our dilettantism to lay them, before it is too late, by the flashing of the unsheathed sword.

Gosse, Sir Edmund

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

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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

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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

49.

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

50.

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