War Quotes

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
Hugh elliott - when a miracle happens, even if not to you, its...
Anatol rapoport - one cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the...
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.
Eliza Mother Stewart
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Muriel Rukeyse
Demophilus - the beauty of a statue is in its outward form of...
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Desiderius Erasmus
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - Never knowing.
David Viscott
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
Van Wyck Brooks
Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan, Contact
One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Cicero
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - But that could change.
Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudne
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
Shakti Gawain
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
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".
War is like love; it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.
Kahlil Gibran
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
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.
Clement Stone
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
Herbert Hoove
To insist on strength... is not war - Mongering. It is peace - Mongering.
Barry Goldwate
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
George Frost Kennan
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
Unknown
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
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt.
Kahlil Gibran
Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.
C. Lee Hopkin
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Alfred North Whitehead
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy
War is not nice.
Barbara Bush
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince