War Quotes

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein

If we fight a war and win it with H - Bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans A. Bethe

Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.

Kabbalah

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

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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

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

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Dag Hammarskjold

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

You know what I say to people when I hear they? re writing an anti - war book?? I say, why don? t you write an anti - Glacier book instead? What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter - House 5

Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

John Knowles

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Joe Moore

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Kahlil Gibran

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Georges Clemenceau

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

General Smedley Butle

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

Kahlil Gibran

Success gravitates toward those who are perceived to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within, you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause.

Jeff Herman

Solutions - The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is.

Latin

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

Francis A. Carte

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Wlters

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt