Motivational Quotes

War

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about War

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Dietrich, Marlene

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Twain, Mark

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Manor, Rachel

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

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Weil, Simone

10.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

12.

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

Monica Fairview

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Massie, Allan

16.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

17.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

19.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

21.

Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

22.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

23.

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

24.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

25.

O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

26.

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

Buddha

27.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

28.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

30.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

35.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

Homer

41.

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

Carl Sandburg

42.

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

43.

It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

44.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

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

46.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.