War Quotes

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

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

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

James Thurbe

War is cruel and you cannot refine it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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

Henry Mille

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. 1954.

Enlai Zhou

With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

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

Miyamoto Musashi, 1645

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

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.

Albert Einstein

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

Spanish Prove

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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

There are two ways of constructing a software design One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

C. A. R. Hoare

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Law

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I know patriotism exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

George Washington

Love is a kind of warfare.

Ovid

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

Thomas H. Huxley

War does not determine who is right - Only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Leonard Brandwein

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

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Hellen Kelle

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte