Motivational Quotes

War

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about War

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

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

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

Robert E. Lee

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

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.

Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

George Orwell

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He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Massie, Allan

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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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 idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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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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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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 problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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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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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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

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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

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I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Crook, Jayne

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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.