Motivational Quotes

War

War is not nice.

- Barbara Bush

Best Quotes about War

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

Dahlberg, Edward

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Albrecht, Karl

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Lennon, John

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

10.

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

11.

Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise.

Cooke, E. V.

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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

13.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Massie, Allan

14.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

15.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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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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

18.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

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

Manor, Rachel

20.

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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O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.

Andrews, C. D.

22.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Buddha

24.

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

Carl Sandburg

25.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

26.

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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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

29.

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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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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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

George Orwell

34.

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules 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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Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

37.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Clemenceau, Georges

40.

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

Crook, Jayne

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

Towbridge, J. T.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

49.

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

50.

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.