War Quotes
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.Andr Gide
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.Kahlil Gibran
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.Confucius
Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.Oscar Wilde
My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.Walt Whitman
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.Richard Harris
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
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
But penance need not be paid in suffering... It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.Y. Yakigawa
Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.Henry Louis Mencken
War is the continuation of politics by other means.General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.Georges Clemenceau
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.William Shakespeare
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.Niccolo Machiavelli
It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.Herbert Clark Hoove
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.Ursula K. LeGuin
The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.Lester Bowles Pearson
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.Jean Paul Richte
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.
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.Paulo Coelho, Brida
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.Dinesh D? Souza
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.Isaiah
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.Dorthea Bragg
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over - Concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.Halford E. Luccock
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.Croesus of Lydia
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
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, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 1
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.Confucius
