War Quotes

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

G. M. Trevelyan

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

Warning signs that lover is bored: 1. Passionless kisses 2. Frequent sighing 3. Moved, left no forwarding address.

Matt Groening

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

William Congreve

Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.

Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

We must determine whether we really want freedom - - whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Virginia Hanson

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.

Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

Gurdjieff

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Anonymous

To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.

Walker Percy

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Hemingway

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

The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others.

Eda LeShan

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

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 sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - Nay are dragged - Towards evil.

Hippocrates, Decorum

War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Kahlil Gibran

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

Mae West

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

Dame Rebecca West

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.

Richard Milhous Nixon

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso