War Quotes
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.Holbrook Jackson
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.Aldous Huxley
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
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
I cherish the Franco - German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post - war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin.Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, President, ELDR 1995 - 2000, Foreign Minister 1982 - 1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
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 Huxley
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.Lyndon B. Johnson
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.Elbert Hubbard
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.James Thurbe
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.Mahatma Gandhi
Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.Albert Einstein
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.Miguel Cerbantes
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.Carlos Castaneda
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.Martin Luther King Jr.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.Norman Vincent Peale
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
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
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.Helen Kelle
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.W. L. George
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.Ted Morgan
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.Henry David Thoreau
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear - Sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.Vaclav Havel
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
To hold a pen is to be at war.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of civilized warfare.Author Unknown
The best soldiers are not warlike.Chinese
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.R. A. Lafferty
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super - Added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.Horace
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.Joan Crawford
