War Quotes

C. a. r. hoare - there are two ways of constructing a software...
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Robyn Davidson
Franklin d. roosevelt - as americans, we go forward, in the service of...
Robert heinlein - writing is not necessarily something to be...
My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.
William H. McNeill
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
Jeff Pesis
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
Don Delillo
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.
Mel Colgrove
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
John Ernst Steinbeck
The strongest of all warriors are these two - - Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.
Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
Just think - - IBM and DEC in the same room - - And we did it. Makes you feel warm inside.
Ken Thompson
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
Dan McKinnon
From this day forward until the end of the world... we in it shall be remembered... we band of brothers.
William Shakespeare, Henry V.
Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.
A. G. Buckham
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
A. S. Neill, Summerhill
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.
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 quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham".
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Life 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
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.
Robert Ingersoll