War Quotes

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Sun - Tzu

May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand.

Unknown

I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world.

Glen Cook, Shadow Games

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

J. R. R. Tolkien

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength.

George Orwell, Book "1984".

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain

This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Carl Sagan, Contact

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

Rich Cook

Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.

William Punshon

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Unknown

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Pietro Aretino

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

G. C. Lichtenberg

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Dave Barry

WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

William F. Claire

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

William Shakespeare

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurbe

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.

Euripides

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Queen Elizabeth

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci