War Quotes

Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.
Kabbalah
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
Silius italicus - virtue herself is her own fairest reward....
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook Jackson
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery - Into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
E. H. Chapin
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
William S. Gilbert
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.
Oscar Wilde
William shakespeare - the peace of heaven is theirs that lift their...
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
C. s. lewis, the abolition of man - telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to...
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
R. A. Lafferty
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The more you sweat during peace, The less you bleed during war.
Brian Wilson
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Johann von Goethe
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Author Unknown
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Wlters
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.
Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.
Mary Kay Ash
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
Unknown
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
Blessing Irish
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
An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Baroness Orczy
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potte
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.
Kit Carson
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudne
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
Endicott Peabody
Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.
Arnold Glasgow
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Ellie Katz