War Quotes

Albert einstein - so long as there are men there will be wars....
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".
Niccolo machiavelli - war connot be avoided; it can only be postponed...
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.
Marilyn King
The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.
Kahlil Gibran
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War is the biggest ego trip of all time.
Molly Wiest
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.
Lori Hard
Loren - the skull lay tilted in such a manner that it...
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham".
Beware the man of one book.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.
Greg Proops
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
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
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. LeGuin
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. 1954.
Enlai Zhou
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
Art is a step from what is obvious and well - Known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Demosthenes
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Woodrow Wilson
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James Barrie
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
Alford
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.
Helen Kelle
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men... the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
Francis Bacon
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
La Fontaine