War Quotes

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas Alva Edison

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

Donald G. Smith

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

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

E. M. Forster, as a small child

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Jimmy Buffett

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Carl Rowen

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Mille

Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.

Saturday Review

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.

Hannah Whitall Smith

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

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

Don Delillo

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

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Seneca

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

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

G. Hoppe

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Mary Bertone

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.

Demophilus

You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

Lori Hard

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Emma Goldman

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham".

Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.

Russell G. Alexande

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte