War Quotes

Paul tabori, _the natural science of stupidity_. (new york: chiltoncompany, 1960), p. 104. - modern war has decimated many a country; but it...
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something.
Walker Percy
G. c. lichtenberg - to receive applause for works which do not demand...
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham".
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self - Respect, dignity, integrity, and self - Esteem.
Dr. Laura Schlessinge
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Garry Wills
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - - Never knowing.
Jim Rohn
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
Cowardly dogs bark loudest.
John Webster, The White Devil (1612)
Let tears flow of their own accord their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
Cicero, Philippics
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
General george patton - the object of war is not to die for your country...
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spence
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adle
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
John McCain
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Pinda
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Anatol Rapoport
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
We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.
Ely Gulbertson
Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end.
Woody Allen
War is like love; it always finds a way.
Bertolt Brecht
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
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
John Ernst Steinbeck
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Rowen
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
Edmund White
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
Author Unknown
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right - About - Face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorthea Bragg
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultie
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.
Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
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
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot