Motivational Quotes

War

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

- Hobsbawm, E. J.

Best Quotes about War

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

Crook, Jayne

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

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

Sewell, George

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

Meehan, Francis

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

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

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

Blok, Alexander

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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'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Shakespeare, William

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Manor, Rachel

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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

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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 much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Bierce, Ambrose