War Quotes

Albert camus - life can only be understood backwards, but it...
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Oprah winfrey - unless you choose to do great things with it, it...
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
Ulysses S. Grant
The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.
Publius Ovidius NasoOvid
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
Arnold Toynbee
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all - Powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
Aldous Huxley
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
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fulle
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
Margaret Mead
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton
I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
George Washington
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.
John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
So long as there are men there will be wars.
Albert Einstein
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
Denis Diderot
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - - A terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Johann von Goethe
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.
Bonaro Overstreet
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beeche
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.
Charles Kingsley
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
Dan McKinnon
Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.
Arnold Glasgow
Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.
C. Lee Hopkin
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen, Emma
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.
Oscar Wilde
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
Thomas a Kempis
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll
There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
Francis A. Carte