Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

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

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Pound, Ezra

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

Massie, Allan

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

Albrecht, Karl

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

10.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Housman, A. E.

11.

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

12.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

14.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Buddha

16.

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

Johnson, Edward

17.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

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

W. L. George

19.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

20.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

Will Rogers

22.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

23.

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

24.

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

25.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

26.

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

27.

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

Proverb, Irish

28.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

29.

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

31.

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

Sun Tzu

32.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Kraus, Karl

33.

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

Manor, Rachel

34.

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Towbridge, J. T.

35.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

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

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

41.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

42.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

43.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

44.

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

Omar Bradley

45.

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

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

George Orwell

48.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.