War Quotes

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
Robert anthony, the man who would never be king - i have been like a child walking along the shore...
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
Gerald R. Ford
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Unknown
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short
Gurdjieff - if a sufficient number of people who wanted to...
Voltaire - marriage is the only adventure open to the...
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.
South
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.
Swedish Prove
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Mille
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.
E. Kim Nebeuts
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
William Congreve
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Robert Southey
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
The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.
Anon.
Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.
Patricia Russell - McCloud
War is like love it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
Charles Ives
The longest journey is the journey inward.
Dag Hammarskjold
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
Hunter S. Thompson
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Stanislaw J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts
The best way to end a war is not to begin it.
Author Unknown
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation (p. 208)
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war - - And I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
Thomas Jefferson
Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
Philip Saltie