Motivational Quotes

War

War is a contagion.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about War

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

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

Kitman, Marvin

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times...More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really aren't.

Bauman, Al

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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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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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

28.

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

Manor, Rachel

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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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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

32.

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

Sun Tzu

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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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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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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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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

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

W. L. George

41.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

44.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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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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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Meehan, Francis