Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

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

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

10.

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

11.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

14.

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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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Westcott, Bishop

18.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

19.

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

W. L. George

20.

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

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

Proverb, Irish

22.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

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

Voltaire

28.

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.

29.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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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

31.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

32.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

George Orwell

35.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

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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

40.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

41.

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

Cooke, E. V.

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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Johnson, Edward

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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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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller