War Quotes
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.Baltasar Gracian
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.William Westmoreland
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.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.Richard Willard Armou
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.Georges Clemenceau
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.Rene Descartes
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.Dorothy Sayers
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.George Bernard Shaw
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.Salvador Dali
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.Gilbert Chesterton
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.Ronald Reagan
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.Sun Tzu
We must determine whether we really want freedom - - whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.Virginia Hanson
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.Frank Herbert, Dune
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.Faith Whittlesey
In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.Joesph Heller, Catch - 22
Virtue is indeed its own reward.Claudianus
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.Albert Einstein
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....Ben Stein
Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.Henry Louis Mencken
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.Lao - Tzu
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gaultie
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.Benjamin Disraeli
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.Vincent Van Gogh
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.Earl Nightingale
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.John Kenneth Galbraith
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
