Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

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.

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Andrews, C. D.

10.

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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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

12.

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

Twain, Mark

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Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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

Meehan, Francis

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War is the trade of Kings.

Dryden, John

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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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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Orwell, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

32.

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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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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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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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Baudouin I

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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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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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Confucius

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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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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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Woolf, Virginia

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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Runcie, Robert

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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent -- war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Sontag, Susan