War Quotes

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoove
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
Confucius, the confucian analects - when we see men of worth, we should think of...
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.
Oscar Wilde
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of civilized warfare.
Author Unknown
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
Unknown, UNESCO Constitution
Eido tai shimano roshi - if you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on...
War does not determine who is right - Only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
Brian tracy - all successful people men and women are big...
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
Miguel de Cervantes
We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.
Elliot Wayne Eisne
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
William Shakespeare
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
Francis Bacon
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.
Author Unknown
Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.
Thomas Leonard
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.
Patricia Russell - McCloud
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser, 1590
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
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
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
Michael J. Gel
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
Titus Livius
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van Gogh
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead
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
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Robert Bolt
Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.
Franoise Mallet - Joris
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.
Roscoe Snowden