Motivational Quotes

War

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about War

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Voltaire

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Homer

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

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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.

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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Asquith, Margot

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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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

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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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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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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 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

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Cooke, E. V.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Shakespeare, William

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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Omar Bradley

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

Will Rogers

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

Koestler, Arthur

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Bagehot, Walter