War Quotes

I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.

Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Queen Elizabeth

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half - Shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.

E. B. White

Either war is obsolete or men are.

R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.

Robert Martin Fuoss

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.

Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

G. M. Trevelyan

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

James Thurbe

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Robert Anson Heinlein

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Matthew Arnold

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!

Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

Unknown

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

Patricia Moyes

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

From this day forward until the end of the world... we in it shall be remembered... we band of brothers.

William Shakespeare, Henry V.

Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want.

French Prove

A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.

Aldous Huxley

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

General Smedley Butle