War Quotes

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

George Will

I think there is 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

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultie

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Albert Einstein

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Kahlil Gibran

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fulle

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.

John Kenneth Galbraith

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Adlai Stevenson

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

Holbrook Jackson

What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Sun - Tzu

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

Jerry Coleman

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan, Contact

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

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

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

Orson Welles

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.

Ausonius

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

Lane Olinghouse

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

James Thurbe

Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.

Euripides

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - No alternative.

Golda Mei

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".

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Abraham Harold Maslow

Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.

Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Claudianus

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

In war, you win or lose, live or die - And the difference is just an eyelash.

General Douglas MacArthu

Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. There is no need to worry about a protracted war because from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

St. Francis Xavie