War Quotes

Jean Grey Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single - Celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward.

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What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.

Nikos Kazantzakis

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.

Johnson

In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus

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

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.

Ulysses S. Grant

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.

Arnold Glasgow

The U. S. victory in Gulf war was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.

Dan Quayle, 4/11/91 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Orison Swett Marden

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Karl Menninge

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

Arnold Toynbee

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Henry Kissinge

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

Thomas H. Huxley

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Cardinal Richelieu

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Ludwig Boerne

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.

Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love".

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best soldiers are not warlike.

Chinese

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer, The Iliad

Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.

Thomas Leonard

Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Jane Harrison

A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.

Thucydides

He grounds the warship he walks on.

John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero, Philippics

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.

The Work of the Chariot

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Andr Gide

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still - - That up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Kingsley