Motivational Quotes

War

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about War

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

Twain, Mark

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

Collier, Jeremy

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

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

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Huxley, Aldous

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Hemingway, Ernest

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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Clemenceau, Georges

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire

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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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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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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of -- is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?

Osborne, John

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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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When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.

Sewell, George

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

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

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

Twain, Mark

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Westcott, Bishop

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

Johnson, Edward

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Carl Sandburg

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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

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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

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

Blok, Alexander

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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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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

W. L. George

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

Towbridge, J. T.