War Quotes
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.Colton
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.William Congreve
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.Baruch Spinoza
Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.Zhou En Lai
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.George Bernard Shaw
A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.James Kelly
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.Sextus Julius Frontinus
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.La Fontaine
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - To Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.Karl Kraus
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace, Epistles
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.Robert A. Heinlein
Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament
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
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?Hermocrates of Syracuse
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.Herbert Mitgang
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.Norman Vincent Peale
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.Marquis de Sade
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.John Andrew Holmes
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.Hunter S. Thompson
As we grow old? the beauty steals inward.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.Caskie Stinnett
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Aristotle
Only cowards insult dying majesty.Aesop
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.Robert Lynd
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.Bonaro Overstreet
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.John Knowles
One kind word can warm three winter months.Japanese prove
We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.Blaise Pascal
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.Mel Colgrove
