War Quotes

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.

William Shakespeare

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Howard W. Hunter, Speech given in October 1994

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

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

Confucius

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.

Lester Bowles Pearson

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.

Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.

Arthur Koestle

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.

Hannah Whitall Smith

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

Ely Gulbertson

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

Herbert Mitgang

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

A. G. Buckham

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.

C. Lee Hopkin

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

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

Georges Clemenceau

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.

T. S. Eliot

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

Garry Wills

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Sue Grafton

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Albert Camus

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

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

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

French Prove

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Abraham Harold Maslow

Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen S. Wise

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old - Fashioned.

George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2