Motivational Quotes

War

There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

- Tocqueville, Alexis De

Best Quotes about War

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

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

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pound, Ezra

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Andrews, C. D.

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

Confucius

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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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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer

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What we believe is more important than our material existence, therefore warfare is a legitimate extension of values.

Johnson, Edward

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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

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

Kitman, Marvin

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Georges Clemenceau

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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

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

Sun Tzu

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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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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

Epictetus

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Faint heart never won fair lady.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Manor, Rachel

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Early, Gerald

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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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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

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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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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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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

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

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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