War Quotes
The idea of all - Out nuclear war is unsettling.Walter Goodman
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.Jules de Gautie
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.Sun - Tzu
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.G. Hoppe
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.Mahatma Gandhi
In nature there are neither rewards not punishments - - There are consequences.Robert Green Ingersoll
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.Lori Hard
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.Sir Winston Churchill
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
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.Agatha Christie
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.Martin Luther King Jr.
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.Thomas Huxley
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....Ben Stein
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.Carl Gustav Jung
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq.Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.Albert Camus
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.George W. Bush
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.Elbert Hubbard
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.Woodrow Wilson
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.Woodrow Wilson
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.Demosthenes
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.Robyn Davidson
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
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
