Motivational Quotes

War

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

- W. L. George

Best Quotes about War

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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.

I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

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

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

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

Renard, Jules

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

Blok, Alexander

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

Graves, Robert

10.

All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

11.

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

Confucius

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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 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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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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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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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Mencken, H. L.

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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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

Johnson, Edward

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

28.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

Surtees, Robert S.

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

34.

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

Crook, Jayne

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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Westcott, Bishop

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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

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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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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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.

Fu Wu Ming

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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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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

Kollwitz, KaThe