Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Carl Sandburg

Best Quotes about War

War -- what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire.

Linda Berdoll

I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Homer

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Confucius

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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

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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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Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

Parrish-Bach, Leslie

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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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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A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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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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All men would be cowards if they could.

Rochester, Earl

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

Massie, Allan

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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Graves, Robert

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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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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 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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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Ibarruri, Dolores

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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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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Sun Tzu

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War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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

Manor, Rachel

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Junius

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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Blok, Alexander

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Penn, William

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

Voltaire

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Mandino, Og