War Quotes
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.Demosthenes
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.Arthur C. Clarke
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.Lyndon B. Johnson
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.Seneca
Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.Mary Lorraine Buckley
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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)
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.Albert Camus
The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")
I know you have come to kill me. Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man.Che Guevara, His last words, spoken to his assassin.
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.Helen Kelle
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
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.Pythagoras
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.George S. Patton
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.John Berge
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
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
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.Arthur Koestle
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.Peter Ustinov
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill - Judged outlay.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.David Armistead
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
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.Dorothy Sayers
In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.Brian Tracy
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.Solomon Short
War is based on deception.Sun - Tzu
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.Alvin Toffle
There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo - Americans... Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835
