Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Koestler, Arthur

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Penn, William

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Hoffer, Eric

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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.

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sewell, George

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

W. L. George

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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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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

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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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Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Gellhorn, Martha

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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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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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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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There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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

Confucius

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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.

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

George Orwell

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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.

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Weil, Simone

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Confucius

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