Motivational Quotes

War

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

- Sun Tzu

Best Quotes about War

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

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Twain, Mark

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Dahlberg, Edward

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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 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 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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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Omar Bradley

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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

Cooke, E. V.

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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

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

Blok, Alexander

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

Eliot, T. S.

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I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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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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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

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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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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

40.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Manor, Rachel

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

W. L. George

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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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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert