War Quotes
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice - Cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.Denis Diderot
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.George Eliot
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me.E. B. White
Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.Thomas Leonard
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.John Gay
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
The absence of war is not peace.Harry S Truman
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - There are consequences.Robert G. Ingersoll
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.Thomason
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.Emma Goldman
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.Chuang - Tzu
The first casualty when war comes is truth.Hiram Warren Johnson, (1917)
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.John Kenneth Galbraith
Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.Seneca
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.Plato, The Republic
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.Sun - Tzu
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.Enoch Powell
If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose.Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
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.
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
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Over - Seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.Michael J. Gel
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.Christine Leefeldt
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.Robert E. Lee
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.Henry David Thoreau
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.Walker Percy
It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.Robert Martin Fuoss
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.James Russell Lowell
War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.Mao Tse - Tung
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
