War Quotes

Franois de salignac de la mothe fenelon - should we feel at times disheartened and...
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Ronald reagan, address to the nation, jan 16, 1984 - history teaches that wars begin when governments...
Benjamin disraeli - man is a being born to believe. and if no church...
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
Marcel Ayme
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Dante Alighieri
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Van Wyck Brooks
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Matthew Arnold
If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee W. Hock, Fast Company
Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.
Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson
In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Brian Tracy
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney M. Young Jr.
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war...
Aristophanes
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
Author Unknown
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Albert Einstein
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...
Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155
A good front is half the battle in love or war.
Kim Hubbard
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
William Punshon
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
Dan McKinnon
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
Helen Kelle
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffe