Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Massie, Allan

Best Quotes about War

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

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

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

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

W. L. George

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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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 is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Robert E. Lee

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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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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Blok, Alexander

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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

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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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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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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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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Heller, Joseph

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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

George Orwell

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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

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

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi