War Quotes

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes, quoted from "Oxygen3, Panda Software
Aeschylus - in war, truth is the first casualty....
Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war - For - Profit group has counterfeited patriotism.
Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Henry david thoreau, walden - beware of all enterprises that require new...
Charles m. schultz, linus in
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
G. C. Lichtenberg
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Mary Bertone
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
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.
Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
Machiavelli
But penance need not be paid in suffering... It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudne
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves... We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here - - with its gift of energy and heightened awareness - - So we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Baroness Orczy
I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty - - Never to know the pearl within!
Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas Alva Edison
Beware the ides of March.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
War is like love; it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Thomas Fulle
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Woodrow Wilson
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Henry Louis Mencken
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
Wars teach us not to love our enemies but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others.
Miguel Cerbantes
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
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladstone
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.
H. P. Lovecraft
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved - - The Great Society - - In order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.
Theodore Ledyard Cuyle
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
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him.
R. A. Lafferty
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - Never knowing.
David Viscott