Motivational Quotes

War

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about War

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Twain, Mark

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

13.

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

14.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Renard, Jules

15.

War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?

Kocher, Gerhard

16.

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

17.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

18.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

Andrews, C. D.

24.

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

Johnson, Edward

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

29.

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

George Orwell

30.

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

31.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

32.

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

33.

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.

Frida Kahlo

34.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Rockefeller, John D.

35.

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

36.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

37.

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

Manor, Rachel

38.

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

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

40.

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

Weil, Simone

41.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

42.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

43.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Hoffman, Abbie

44.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

45.

A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Cockburn, Alexander

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

48.

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

49.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

50.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah