Motivational Quotes

War

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

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Best Quotes about War

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Frank, Anne

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Homer

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

Omar Bradley

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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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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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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

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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Sun Tzu

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War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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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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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Manor, Rachel

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

Ibarruri, Dolores

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America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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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.