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

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

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

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

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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 cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Omar Bradley

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

Baudouin I

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

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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

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

Einstein, Albert

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

Buddha

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

Benjamin, Walter

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

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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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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

W. L. George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Meehan, Francis

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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

Kitman, Marvin

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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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

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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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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

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

George Orwell

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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Clemenceau, Georges