War Quotes

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.

Barbara de Angelis

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Ernest Dimnet

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

John Burroughs

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gautie

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non - Conformist.

Ayn Rand

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

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

Mary Lorraine Buckley

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king.

Eliza Mother Stewart

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug - Of - war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Pete Holiday

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.

Machiavelli

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

Leonard Brandwein

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

War is hell, and I mean to make it so.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859

Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Thomas Merton

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Edith Cavell, last words, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Oprah Winfrey

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery

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

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Gerald R. Ford

Give yourself something to work toward - - Constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine" #155

I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

Marquis de Sade

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

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

George Orwell, 1984

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire