Motivational Quotes

War

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

Best Quotes about War

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

Renard, Jules

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Junius

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Hazlitt, William

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.

Rorty, Richard

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Manor, Rachel

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Weil, Simone

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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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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Blok, Alexander

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

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

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi

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

Clausewitz, Karl Von

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

Milligan, Spike

27.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Russell, Bertrand

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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Kraus, Karl

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

George Orwell

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

Twain, Mark

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

Confucius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves -- there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? -- are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help -- can you face him honestly?).

Fenton, James

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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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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.

Shakespeare, William

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Mussolini, Benito

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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 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