Motivational Quotes

War

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

- Rufus, Quintus Curtius

Best Quotes about War

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Homer

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Coward, Noel

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

Sewell, George

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

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Knight, George A.

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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Wars are made to make debt.

Pound, Ezra

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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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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What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Franklin, Benjamin

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Confucius

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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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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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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Lawrence, Frieda

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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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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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carl Sandburg

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A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Grant, Phillip C.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Georges Clemenceau

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

George Orwell

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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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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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Cowards can never be moral.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

Walter Goodman

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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

W. L. 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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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

Kitman, Marvin

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Poe, Edgar Allan