War Quotes

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

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

David Weatherford

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Saint Augustine

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Wolcott Gibbs

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".

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

Tonight - To you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support. On his Vietnam War policy.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.

Eliza Mother Stewart

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Mao Tse - Tung

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

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 think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Muriel Rukeyse

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

F. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow

The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster, as a small child

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beeche

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Colton

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

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

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney M. Young Jr.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war - For - Profit group has counterfeited patriotism.

Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Homer, The Iliad

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud

Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.

Cosino DeGregrio

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Claudianus