War Quotes
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.Alfred North Whitehead
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.Andr Gide
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
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
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.Bernard Mannes Baruch
In war, truth is the first casualty.Aeschylus
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
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.Ted Morgan
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.John Dewey
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.Seneca
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.James Baldwin
To hold a pen is to be at war.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.Arthur Koestle
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.Frances Rodman
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.Alvin Toffle
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.John Foster Dulles
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.Mary Bertone
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.Sun - Tzu
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.Ross Hersey
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch - Engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.A Bartlett Giamatti
Either war is obsolete or men are.R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of civilized warfare.Author Unknown
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.J. R. R. Tolkien
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.Confucius
Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.Herbert Hoove
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.John Burroughs
Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.Robert Ardrey
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.Maurice Masterlinck
