War Quotes
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.Juvenal, Satires
What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.Nikos Kazantzakis
Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.Thomas Merton
Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.Lewis S Feue
Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.Calvin Coolidge
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.Emma Goldman
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.Vincent Van Gogh
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
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.Rita Rudne
Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon.Cosino DeGregrio
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.George Orwell, Book "1984".
I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.Woody Allen
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.Prince Otto
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - - Never knowing.Jim Rohn
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.Dante Alighieri
Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.Joseph Conrad
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.
An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.Baroness Orczy
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.Mel Colgrove
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.James Thurbe
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.Lao - Tzu
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.Karl Menninge
And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward.Terry Goodkind, "Stone of Tears".
The U. S. victory in Gulf war was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.Oliver Wendell Holmes
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.Leonardo da Vinci
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
The idea of all - Out nuclear war is unsettling.Walter Goodman
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.Andr Gide
