War Quotes
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.Albert Einstein
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.John Locke
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.Thomason
War is based on deception.Sun - Tzu
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.G. C. Lichtenberg
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
In war, you win or lose, live or die - And the difference is just an eyelash.General Douglas MacArthu
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.William F. Claire
One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.Quentin Crisp
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.Orson Welles
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.
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.Richard Willard Armou
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.Jawaharlal Nehru
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.Herbert Spence
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.Gerald R. Ford
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
The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.Donald G. Smith
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.Lori Hard
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.Sun Tzu
David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.This Is Spinal Tap
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.James Thurbe
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich Eyck
Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.Otto Von Bismarck
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.Rensis Likert
Beware the ides of March.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.Marilyn King
