Motivational Quotes

War

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

- Junius

Best Quotes about War

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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

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

Koestler, Arthur

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sun Tzu

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Benjamin, Walter

10.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

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

Confucius

12.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Mumford, Lewis

13.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

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

George Orwell

15.

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

Blok, Alexander

16.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Georges Clemenceau

18.

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

19.

War is a contagion.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

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.

21.

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

22.

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

Reagan, Ronald

23.

I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace.

Monica Fairview

24.

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

Andrews, C. D.

25.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

26.

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

Graves, Robert

28.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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

Crook, Jayne

32.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

33.

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

Clemenceau, Georges

35.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The coward threatens when he is safe.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Morality is contraband in war.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Benn, Tony

42.

Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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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

44.

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

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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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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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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice -- is often the means of their regeneration.

Mill, John Stuart

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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

Davis, Rebecca Harding

49.

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.

50.

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