War Quotes

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Emma Goldman

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

John Stewart Mills

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Henry Louis Mencken

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fulle

Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen S. Wise

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.

Beatrix Potte

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

Ronald Reagan

My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.

Walt Whitman

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster, as a small child

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

Economics is war pursued by other means.

Raymond F. DeVoe, Jr.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Unknown

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Saint Augustine

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.

John Greenleaf Whittie

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese prove

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

Frank Herbert, Dune

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

Alexander Haig

We Americans know - Although others appear to forget - The risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.

Woody Allen

Love is a kind of warfare.

Ovid

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old - Fashioned.

George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestle

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Cicero

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Margaret Mead

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Law

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

Elbert Hubbard

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.

Hannah Whitall Smith

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Johann von Goethe