War Quotes
The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of civilized warfare.Author Unknown
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)
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
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.Francois Fenelon
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.Robert E. Lee
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.Dr. Thomas Dooley
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your back.Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.Lyndon B. Johnson
Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.Saint Augustine
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.Lord William Beveridge
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann von Goethe
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
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.Orson Welles
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.Miguel de Cervantes
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.Robert
The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.Anon.
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people; to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.William Arthur Ward
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.James A. Garfield
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market - Place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In war, you win or lose, live or die - And the difference is just an eyelash.General Douglas MacArthu
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.Ernest Hemingway
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.Geoffrey F. Albert
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.Elbert Hubbard
Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.William Shakespeare
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.Ralph Nader, The Pacific Sun, March 21, 1981
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.Wolcott Gibbs
