War Quotes

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schultz, Linus in "Peanuts".

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andr Gide

Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

Joseph Conrad

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.

Arthur C. Clarke, 2010

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Carl Rowen

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".

Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

Thomas S. Szasz

Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

We must determine whether we really want freedom - - whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Virginia Hanson

A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.

Simon MacDonald

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

G. M. Trevelyan

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title - Deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Herbert Clark Hoove

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Prove

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Anon.

Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

Mary Lorraine Buckley

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Claudianus

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - Nay are dragged - Towards evil.

Hippocrates, Decorum

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

Bell Hooks

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.

Miguel Cerbantes

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

Chief Seattle

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

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

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

General George Catlett Marshall

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13: 2