Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Omar Bradley

Best Quotes about War

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Junius

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

10.

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Meehan, Francis

11.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

12.

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

13.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

15.

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

Sun Tzu

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

George Orwell

20.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

25.

When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

26.

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

27.

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

Pound, Ezra

28.

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

29.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

32.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

34.

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

35.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

37.

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

Manor, Rachel

38.

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

39.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

40.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

41.

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

Andrews, C. D.

42.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Georges Clemenceau

45.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

46.

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

Albrecht, Karl

47.

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