Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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

Johnson, Edward

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

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

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

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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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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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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

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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

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Omar Bradley

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

W. L. George

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

George Orwell

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Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed.

Talmud, The

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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

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

Andrews, C. D.

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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

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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