War Quotes

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Prince Otto

The glow of inspiration warms us it is a holy rapture.

Publius Ovidius NasoOvid

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

Gamal Abdel Nasse

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

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

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

William Shakespeare

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

Johnson

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.

Ausonius

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

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prathe

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green - Eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Margaret of Valois

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Homer, The Iliad

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948

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 one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Vincent Van Gogh

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Dr. Jonas Salk

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fulle

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.

Nikos Kazantzakis

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Leonard Brandwein

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Loren

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Elias Canetti

But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Chinese Prove

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Carl Sandburg

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.

Richard Milhous Nixon

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In war, you win or lose, live or die - And the difference is just an eyelash.

General Douglas MacArthu

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim