Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Benedict, Ruth

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

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

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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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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buddha

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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

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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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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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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

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Omar Bradley

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

Carl Sandburg

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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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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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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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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Proverb, Irish