War Quotes

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

John Locke

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Peggy Noonan

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.

Johnson

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Peter Ustinov

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.

Kit Carson

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Dave Parnas

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

Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

James Kelly

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

Helen Kelle

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot - Proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

Unknown

Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Philip Saltie

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.

Norman Vincent Peale

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

Herbert Mitgang

War is like love it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Thomas Huxley

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Roscoe Snowden

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

Georges Clemenceau

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

Herbert Butterfield

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Shakti Gawain

A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.

Native American Prove

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Robert Ardrey

Ready comprehension is often a knee - Jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe

We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.

Marilyn King

He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

Richard Willard Armou

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built - In mental disorder which drives him towards self - Destruction.

Arthur Koestle

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