War Quotes

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well - Housed, well - warmed, and well - Fed.

Herman Melville

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win.

Sun Tzu

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl von Clausewitz

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957

Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Elizabeth Harrison

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.

Barbara Paley

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoove

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Ricthe

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

Carl Sandburg

The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Carlos Castaneda

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.

Walker Percy

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoi

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

Neville Chamberlain

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

Lane Olinghouse

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war. On lack of national identity.

Lester Bowles Pearson

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family fued.

Helen Kelle

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato, The Republic

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

Ely Gulbertson

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin P. Whipple

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

William S. Gilbert

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation - First Speake

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

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Abraham Harold Maslow

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Albert Einstein

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Sun - Tzu