War Quotes

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold - Bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James R. Lowell

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.

Joseph Sugarman

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestle

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

Bell Hooks

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

Chief Seattle

As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.

Dave Barry

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

Ely Gulbertson

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

John Dryden, Imitation of Horace

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.

John Kenneth Galbraith

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

Gamal Abdel Nasse

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Edith Cavell, last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.

Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears".

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

Jeff Pesis

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

George S. Patton

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert Heinlein

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

William Shakespeare

There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

C. A. R. Hoare

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West