Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about War

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

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

Albrecht, Karl

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

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

W. L. George

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Graves, Robert

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

Poe, Edgar Allan

11.

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

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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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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

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

15.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Crook, Jayne

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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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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Reagan, Ronald

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

22.

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.

Proverb, Irish

23.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benjamin, Walter

25.

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

Blok, Alexander

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

28.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

29.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

30.

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

Carl Sandburg

31.

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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

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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

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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Confucius

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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

41.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pound, Ezra

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl