Motivational Quotes

War

All men would be cowards if they could.

- Rochester, Earl

Best Quotes about War

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

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Twain, Mark

The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Breton, Andre

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

Junius

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

11.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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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

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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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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.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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.

27.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Twain, Mark

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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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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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

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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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

George Orwell

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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

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

42.

So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

Waters, R.

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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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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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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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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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.