War Quotes
Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.Joseph Conrad
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
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.Spanish Prove
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Isaac Bashevis Singe
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.Arthur Koestle
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.Charles Kingsley
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.Charles Manson
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.Karl Kraus
Beware the ides of March.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.Oscar Arias Sanchez
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.Hebrews 13: 2
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.G. C. Lichtenberg
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.Home
War is hell, and I mean to make it so.William Tecumseh Sherman
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
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, Out of the Red (1960)
To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.George Stanley McGovern
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.Robert Ardrey
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.Edwin P. Whipple
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat - Oppressed brain.William Shakespeare
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.J. R. R. Tolkien
Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn.Lebanese Prove
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.Hunter S. Thompson
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.Author Unknown
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.Carl Sagan, Contact
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.William Tecumseh Sherman
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.A. G. Buckham
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.Eric Nicol
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
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
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.Elbert Hubbard
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.Seneca
