War Quotes

Mohandas karamchand gandhi - if we are to teach real peace in this world, and...
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Garry Wills
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan, Contact
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
Felix adle - ethical religion can be real only to those who...
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.
Robert E. Lee
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
Hunter S. Thompson
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
Lord William Beveridge
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
Unknown
Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.
Gary Lee Phillips
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Loren
A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
George Orwell, 1984
As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
The Talmud
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.
Oscar Wilde
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert Heinlein
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
The U. S. victory in Gulf war was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.
Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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
The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct.
Demophilus
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
Henry Kissinge
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Spanish Prove
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
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.
William Punshon
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
Victoria Lincoln
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.
Lori Hard