War Quotes
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.Jefferson Davis
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.Richard Whatley
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
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
Trying is the first step towards failure.Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.M. R. Vincent
Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.John F. Kennedy
Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward.Antigonus of Sokho
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.Robert Heinlein
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.Glen Cook, Shadow Games
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.Ellie Katz
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
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.Hugh Elliott
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa
A good front is half the battle in love or war.Kim Hubbard
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.James Russell Lowell
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.Elizabeth Harrison
History is a vast early warning system.Norman Cousins
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.Quentin Crisp
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.Niccolo Machiavelli
Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.Richard Milhous Nixon
We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.Lester Bowles Pearson
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
War is hell, and I mean to make it so.William Tecumseh Sherman
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
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The best way to end a war is not to begin it.Author Unknown
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
No sun - No moon! No morn - No noon - No dawn - No dusk - No proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845), in the poem called No!
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
